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they please to lie down ; the unmaried men and 

 women apart from each other ; or, if the family be 

 large, there are small huts adjoining to which the 

 servants retire in the night ; so that privacy is as 

 much observed here, as one could expect. They 

 have mats made on purpose for sleeping on ; and 

 the clothes that they wear in the day, serve for their 

 covering in the night. Their whole furniture consists 

 of a bowl or two, in which they make kava ; a few 

 gourds ; cocoa-nut shells ; some small wooden stools 

 which serve them for pillows ; and, perhaps, a large 

 stool for the chief or master of the family to sit 

 upon. 



The only probable reason I can assign for their 

 neglect of ornamental architecture in the construc- 

 tion of their houses, is their being fond of living 

 much in the open air. Indeed, they seem to con- 

 sider their houses, within which they seldom eat, as 

 of little use but to sleep in, and to retire to in bad 

 weather. And the lower sort of people who spend 

 a great part of their time in close attendance upon 

 the chiefs, can have little use for their own houses, 

 but in the last case. 



They make amends for the defects of their houses, 

 by their great attention to, and dexterity in naval 

 architecture, if I may be allowed to give it that name. 

 But I refer to the narrative of my last voyage for an 

 account of their canoes, and their manner of build- 

 ing and navigating them. * 



The only tools which they use to construct these 

 boats, are hatchets, or rather thick adzes, of a 

 smooth black stone that abounds at Toofoa ; augres, 

 made of shark's teeth, fixed on small handles ; and 

 rasps of a rough skin of a fish, fastened on flat pieces 

 of wood thinner on one side, which also have handles. 



* Vol. III. p. 222, 223. The reader, by comparing that 

 account, with what Cantova says of the sea-boats of the Caroline 

 Islands, will find, in this instance, also, the greatest similarity. 

 See Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, p. 286. 



