be found in greater plenty amongft them; and, by proper cultivation, the fruits
c f the ifland would not only be increafed, but their quality might be improved.
They feem, however,, as contented with what is fpontaneouily produced, as if
they had attained to the ne plus ultra, and are therefore happier than Europeans
in general are, whofe deiires are unbounded. When the men are at work, they,
■wear only a piece of cloth round their middle, which they.call maro: at other times
they wear garments which they call purawei, and teepoota about their bodies, with
a kind of turban on their heads; and, in walking, they carry a long white ftick
in one of their hands, with the fmalleft end uppermoflt.
Thefe people go to war in large canoes, at one end of which there is a kind of
ilage eredted, fupported by four carved pillars, and is called tootee. Their weapons
are a kind of clubs, and long wooden lances. They. have alfo bows and
arrows. The former are made of a ftrong elaftic wopd. The arrows are a fmalf
fpecies of reed,, or bamboes, pointed with hard wood, or with. the /ling pf the ray-
■fifb, which is a iharp-bearded bone.. [See pi. XIII. fig. 13 ] . They ajip make
ufe of flings, [fee ibid. fig. 1 ] made of the fibres of the bark of fome tree, of
which, in general, they make their cordage too: fome of them, as well a^ their
fliricrs, are neatly plaited. Their hatchets, or rather adzes, which they cadi towa,
are made by tying a hard black itane, of the kind of which they make their paffe-
beaters, to the end of a wooden handle;.and they look very much like a imall
garden hoe : and the ftone part is ground or worn to an edge. [See pi. XIII.
fig. .9.] The making of thefe ftone-inftruments muft be a work of time, and
laborious, as the ftone of which they are made is very hard. The natives have
màròs, or pieces of cloth, which reach up from the waift, to defend them from
the lances, or bunches of hair curioufly plaited. They alfo wear teepdòtas'topòh
their heads, and taowmees, or a kind of breaft-plate, hung about their necks ; [fee
pi. XI.] large turbans too, in which they ftick a fmall bunch o f parrot’s feathers ;
[fee pi. XIII. fig. 12.] and fometimes ufe what they call a whaow, which is a large
cap of a conical figure. In their heivos, or war-dances, they aflume various antic
motions and geftures, like thofe pra&ifed by the girls when they dance t^owree
whaow,* playing on a clapper made òf two mother-of-pearl ihells ; and make thè'
ephaita, or wry mouth, [fee pi. VII. fig. 2.] as a token of defiance: they alfo join
.their hands together, mdving them at the fame time, and clap the palms of their
hands
* A kind .of diyerik>a.