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been burnt in. On many occasions, they actually 

 cut this part of the face with an instrument ; in the same 

 manner as the people of Otaheite cut their heads. 



This day, I bestowed on Mareewagee some pre- 

 sents, in return for those we had received from him 

 the day before; and as the entertainments which he 

 had then exhibited for our amusement, called 

 upon us to make some exhibition in our way, I 

 ordered the party of marines to go through their 

 exercise, on the spot w 7 here his dances had been 

 performed; and, in the evening, played off some 

 fire- works at the same place. Poulaho, with all the 

 principal chiefs, and a great number of people, of 

 all denominations, were present. The platoon firing, 

 which was executed tolerably well, seemed to give 

 them pleasure; but they were lost in astonishment 

 when they beheld our water rockets. They paid but 

 little attention to the fife and drum, or French horns, 

 that played during the intervals. The king sat 

 behind every body, because no one is allowed to sit 

 behind him; and that his view might not be ob- 

 structed, nobody sat immediately before him; but a 

 lane, as it were, w r as made by the people from him, 

 quite down to the space allotted for the fire-works. 



In expectation of this evening show, the circle of 

 natives about our tent being pretty large, they en- 

 gaged, the greatest part of the afternoon, in boxing 

 and wrestling ; the first of which exercises they call 

 fangatooa and the second foohoo. When any of them 

 chooses to wrestle, he gets up from one side of the 

 ring, and crosses the ground in a sort of measured 

 pace, clapping smartly on the elbow-joint of one arm, 

 which is bent, and produces a hollow sound ; that is 

 reckoned the challenge. If no person comes out 

 from the opposite side to engage him, he returns, in 

 the same manner, and sits down ; but sometimes 

 stands clapping in the midst of the ground, to pro- 

 voke someone to come out. If an opponent appear, 

 they come together with marks of the greatest good- 



