45G cook's voyage to julv, 



afflicted with sickness and death, as well as their 

 hogs and other animals. When this anger abates, 

 they suppose that every thing is restored to its 

 natural order; and it should seem, that they have 

 a great reliance on the efficacy of their endeavours 

 to appease their offended divinity. They also admit 

 a plurality of deities, though all inferior to Kallafoot- 

 onga. Amongst them, they mention Toqfooa-boo- 

 lootoo, God of the clouds and fog; Talleteboo, and 

 some others, residing in the heavens. The first in 

 rank and power, who has the government of the sea 

 and its productions, is called Futtajhihe, or, as it was 

 sometimes pronounced, Footqfooa ; who, they say, is 

 a male, and has for his wife Fi/kava kajeea ; and here, 

 as in heaven, there are several inferior potentates, 

 such as Vahaa Jbnooa, Tareeava, Maltaha, Fvaroo, 

 and others. The, same religious system, however, 

 does not extend all over the cluster of the Friendly 

 Isles; for the supreme god of Hapaee, for instance, 

 is called Alo Alo ; and other isles have two or three, 

 of different names. But their notions of the power 

 and other attributes of these beings, are so very 

 absurd, that they suppose they have no farther con- 

 cern with them after death. 



They have, however, very proper sentiments 

 about the immateriality and the immortality of the 

 soul. They call it life, the living principle, or, what 

 is more agreeable to their notions of it, an Olooa; 

 that is, a divinity, or invisible being. They say, 

 that, immediately upon death, the souls of their 

 chiefs separate from their bodies, and go to a place 

 called Boolootoo ; the chief, or god of which is 

 Goleho. This Gooleho seems to be a personification 

 of death ; for they used to say to us, " You, and the 

 men of Feejee (by this junction, meaning to pay a 

 compliment, expressive of their confession of our 

 superiority over themselves,) are also subject to 

 the power and dominion of Gooleho." His country, 

 the general receptacle of the dead, according to 



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