j7uiy.‘ to whither he pleafed.; and Tupia immediately repaired
e— to offer his oblations at one of the Morais.
Monday 17. The next morning, we went on fhore again, and walked
up the hills, where the productions were exactly the fame
as thofe of Otaheite, except that the rocks and clay appeared
to-be more burnt. The houfes were neat, and the boat-
houfes remarkably large; one that we meaCured was fifty
paces long, ten broad, and twenty-four feet high; the whole-
formed a pointed arch, like thofe of our old cathedrals,
which was fupported on one fide by twenty-fix, and on the
other by .thirty-pillars, or rather polls, about two feet high,
and one thick, upon moll of which were rudely carved the
heads of men, and feveral fanciful devices, not altogether
■ unlike thqfe which we fometimes fee printed from wooden
blocks, at the beginning and end of old books. The plains,
qr flat part of the .country, abounded in bread-fruit, and
cocoa-nut trees j in lbme: places, ho we vei', there were fait
fwamps and lagoons, which would produce neither.
t uefday is. *f We wentagain a-fhoreon the 18 th, and would have taken
the advantage of Tupia’s company, in our perambulation V
but he was too much engaged with his friends: we took
however his boy, whofe name was T a y k t o , and Mr. Banks-
went to take a farther view of what had much engaged his '
attention befbr&; it was a kind of chefl or ark, the lid of
which was nicely lowed on, and thatched very neatly.
With pa-lm-nUt leaves V it wais fixed Upon two poles, and fupported
on little arches of wood, very neatly carved; the ufe
of the poles feented to be to remove it from place to place, in
the manner of our fedan chairs: in one end of it was a fquare
hole, in the middle of which was a ring touching the fides,
and leaving the angles open, ib as to form a round hole
within a fquare one. The firft time Mr. Banks faw this c o n fer,
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