the fame manner, and inlaid with a fliell like mother-ofpearl.
Thofe who bore this mark of diftintfdon were gene- v----,----<•
rally old, at leaft paft the middle age, and were Mo, more
marked with the Amoco than the reft.
One or more perfons, thus diftinguiftied, always appealed!
in each canoe, when they came to attack us, according to>
the fize of it. When they came within about a cable’s length
of the fliip, they ufed to flop, and the Chiefs rifing from their
feat, put on a drefs which feemed appropriated to the occa-
fion, generally of dog’s fkin, and holding out their decorated
Raff, or a weapon, directed the reft of the people what they
fhould do. When they were at too great a diilance to reach
us with a lance or aftone, they prefumed that we had no weapon
with which we could reach them; here then the defiance
was given, and the words were almoft univerfally the
fame, Aaromuii huromui^ hurre uto a Pcitoo-Potoo oge: 4 Come tO’
« us, come on fhore, and we will kill you all with our
<2 patoo-Patoos.” While they were uttering thefe menaces,
they came gradually nearer and ne.arer, till they were clofe:
alongfide; talking at intervals in a peaceable ftrain, and ang
e r in g any queftions that we afked them ; and at intervals
renewing their defiance and threats, till being encouraged
by our apparent timidity, they began their war-fong and;
dance, as a prelude to an attack, which always followed,,
and was fometimes continued till it. became abfolutely ne-
eeffary to reprefs them by firing fome fmall-fhot; and feme—
times ended after throwing a few ftones on board, as if content
with having offered us an infult which we did not. dare;
to revenge.
The war-dance confifis of a great variety of violent motions,
and hideous contortions of the limbs, during, which;
the countenance alfo performs its. part.:, the tongue is frequently