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before us, and the fat and blood before them, on 

 which they chiefly dined, and said it was Mamity, 

 very good victuals ; and we not only said, but 

 thought the same of the pork. The hog weighed 

 about fifty pounds. Some parts about the ribs I 

 thought rather overdone ; but the more fleshy parts 

 were excellent ; and the skin, which by our way of 

 dressing can hardly be eaten, had, by this method, a 

 taste and flavour superior to any thing I ever met 

 with of the kind. I have now only to add, that 

 during the whole of the various operations, they ex- 

 hibited a cleanliness well worthy of imitation. I have 

 been the more particular in this account, because I 

 do not remember that any one of us had seen the 

 whole process before ; nor is it well described in the 

 narrative of my former voyage. 



While dinner was preparing, I took a view of this 

 Whenooa of Oedidee. It was small, but a pleasant 

 spot ; and the houses were so disposed as to form a 

 very pretty village, which is very rarely the case at 

 these isles. Soon after we had dined, we set out for 

 the ship, with the other pig, and a few races of plan- 

 tains, which proved to be the sum total of our great 

 expectations. 



In our return to the ship, we put ashore at a place 

 where, in the corner of a house, we saw four wooden 

 images, each two feet long, standing on a shelf, hav- 

 ing a piece of cloth round their middle, and a kind of 

 turban on their heads, in which were stuck long cocks 

 feathers. A person in the house told us they were, 

 Eatua no te Toutou, gods of the servants or slaves. 

 1 doubt if this be sufficient to conclude that they pay 

 them divine worship, and that the servants or slaves 

 are not allowed the same gods as men of more 

 elevated rank. I never heard that Tupia made any 

 such distinction, or that they worshipped any visible 

 thing whatever. Besides, these were the first wooden 

 gods we had seen in any of the isles ; and all the au- 

 thority we had for their being such, was the bare 



