which are ufed as remedies againft different diforde'rS.-
Their medicines are few, and very fitaple,. but their difeafeS
ar.e not manifold and complicated.
As foon as we had obtained thefe accounts from Tootavai,
the fliip unmoored, on the fourth of June, about ten in the
morning. The king of Raietea, Oo ooroo, to whom the
conqueror O-Poonee had left the title and honour of royalty,
vifited us with fome of his relations’, juft before our
departure. O-Rea with his family was likewife on board,
and Mahine with his relations came to take their leave. The
parting fcene was extremely affecting; all our friends fired
tears plentifully, but poor Mahine’s heart feemed torn to
pieces by the violence o f his grief. He ran from cabin to
cabin, and embraced every one of us, without being able to
fpeak a fitigle word. His tears, his fighs and looks were
eloquent beyond defcription. At laft the fliip fet fa il; he
got into his canoe, and continued {landing upright, whilft
all his countrymen were feared. He looked at us, then'
hung down his head, and hid it in his garments. When
we had cleared the reefs, We ftill perceived him to wave his-
extended arms; and he continued his addrefies till we could
no longer difcern him.
Thus we left an amiable nation, who, with all their im-
perfedtibns, are perhaps more innocent and pure of heart,
than thofe who are more refined and better inftrufted.
Without quoting the example of Mahine, we have often
been
been witnefles to reciprocal afts of kindnefs, which con-
vinced us, that the focial virtues are frequently exercifed
amongft themfelves. I have feen a fingle bread-fruit, or a
few coco-nuts fhared between a number of people, fo that
every one partook of theta. I have obferved them parting
with their cloaths, and doing feveral charitable actions to
each other, With the fame good-will which they exprelfed
towards us. We fhould indeed be ungrateful, if we did
not acknowledge the kindnefs with which they always
treated us; they were ready to carry us on their backs in
and out of our boats, to prevent the furf from wetting our
feet; they often loaded themfelves with the curiofities which
we had purchafed; and rarely refufed to go into the water
in queft of any bird which we had fhot. If the rain
caught us on our excurfions, or the heat of the fun and the
fatigue of the journey oppreffed us, we were invited to re-
pofe in their dwellings, and feafted on their beft provifions ;
our friendly hoft flood at a diflanee, and never tafled any
thing till we entreated him; whilft fome of the family
were employed in fanning us with a leaf, or the bough of
a tree. Before we left the houfe we were commonly
adopted, according to our different ages, in the quality
of fathers, brothers, or Tons. This circumflance was owing
to an opinion that we were all related.. The chiefs in all
the Society Iflands are defcended from the fame family; our
officers, therefore, and all thofe who dined or mefTed together*