upon as a fign o f friendfhip, and as an oath or fuperftitious ceremony,!
without which they will not venture to come on board an European
(hip j * however, it is by no means probable, that the people o f
Guinea had any intercourfe with the natives, o f New Guinea or
Mallicollo.
Captain Cook and Mr. Banks found on O-Taheitee, and in
the other Society-illes, fometimes the under jaws o f their
vanquifhed enemies, hung up as trophies j and the underjaws
o f the flam foes, are likewife hung up before the-
houfes o f the conquerors on the coaft o f Guinea, as marks o f
honour, and the firft Hep gained towards obtaining nobility., -j-
Having before, (Chap. vL. Sedt. iii. p. 281.) hinted at the great
probability, that the nations of the firft race (inhabiting Eafter-iflandj,
the Marquefas, the Society, and Friendly-iflands, and N ew -Z e e-
land) are defcended from fome o f the files fituated to the Eaft o f
the Philippines, commonly called the Caroline-iflands; it might
not, perhaps, be improper to give here a Iketch o f the manners and
cuftoms o f the people living in the Caroline-iflands, fince this will
carry this probability to. the higheft degree poffible, as their man-
6 ners
• Yillautd de Bellefond Relation de$ cotes d’Afrique appellee Guinee (Paris 1669., 8vo.)
f Atkin’s Voyage to Guinea, 8vo, 1737, p. 80. and Villauld de Bellefond.
ners are fo fimilar and fo nearly related to thofe o f the people in the
iflands o f the South Seas juft mentioned. *
T h e inhabitants o f the ifland o f U l e e (one o f the Caroline-
iflands) and its diftridt, are o f various colours, fome are fairer
than the reft, like Meftifoa, who have a Spanilh father and am
Indian mother,- others are. fimilar in colour to the Indians at the
Philippines;. and others again are like mu-lattoes fprung from a'
negro and. an Indian woman.. Th e moft tawny people are of the'
loweft clafs, and ferve inftead o f domeftica. Th e y all live chiefly
upon fi’fli, which they catch in great abundance, upon cocos and
feven forts o f roots, fimilar to thofe ufed in the ’ Marian-iflandS;.
Th e y have fowls; and catch all kinds o f birds efpecially o f the
aquatic fort, which they ufe for food y but they are without any;
quadruped. T h e houfes o f the common people are fmall cottages
covered with thatch o f a kind o f palm leaves (probably the Athro-
dadiyl'is) but thole of their chiefs o rTAM O tE s are large,; painted,
and ornamented on the infide. Their boats are high both before
and behind, and the planks are fewed together ■ ' to one fide of the
boat out-riggers are. fixed, which, are alfo fattened to. a long fpar
placed
MANNERS
COMPARED
* ” This account o f the manners o f the people in the new Caroline iflands has been abflrafled
from des Erajts Hijloire des navigations aux terres Attjîrales, vol. ii. p. 445— 511. In order
to prevent repetitions, we (hall o ily refer the reader to the paiTages. of this work, to Cape
Cook's Voyages-and thofe of.George Forlter. *