A V O U G E ROUND THE WOR L D .
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who feemed to be dreffed in a bright cloth of y .
■ rather orange colour, from whence we fufpefted
. • -„„I npnnle •that they were their principal people. We now hkewife tnat nicy W , fpemed to be extremely
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turned wi entrance or door, which was .fo
rh p r e feemed to be 3- ln^a BBH
h a man of a common fize muft ftoop to get in.
low, that man |g anchffl in about forty
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0adTn,o” h .Cbo.. wi.ho»< »ny ceremony or in.uauon,
■ beard «rong. U W Ê * * “ ? ° f * B H
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ffiort. His ears were very long, almoft hanging on his m1 7ch.
fhoulders, and his legs pundtured in compartments after a
tafte which we had obferved no where elfe. He had only
a belt round his middle, from whence a kind of net-work
defcended before, too thin to conceal any thing from the
fight. A firing was tied about his neck, and a flat bone,
fomething (haped like a tongue, and about five inches long,
was fattened to it, and hung down on the breaft. This, he
told us, was a porpoife’s bone (eevee toharra), exprefling it
exactly by the fame words which a Taheitian would have
made ufe of. To explain himfelf better, he alfo called it
eevee-eeka, which we well underftood to fignify the bone
of a fifh #. He was no fooner feared in the boat, than he
complained of being cold by fhivering, and making various
geftures of a very intelligible nature. Mr. Gilbert, the
matter, therefore gave him a jacket, and put a hat on his
head, and in that drefs he appeared upon deck. The captain
and paflengers prefented him with nails, medals, and
firings of beads, the laft of which, he defired to have tied
round his head. At the beginning he fhewed fome marks
of fear or diffidence, afking whether we fliould kill him as
an enemy (matte-toaf) but upon being aflured of good
treatment and friendfhip on our part, he feemed perfectly
fecure and unconcerned, and talked of nothing but dancing
* Eeya at Taheitee, and eeka at New Zeeland and the Friendly Hies mean
a fifh.
V O L . I . 4 | (heeva).