62 cook's voyage to SEPT. 



came to us ; and, about ten minutes after, Otoo 

 himself arrived, and we all went to sleep in his 

 canoe. 



" The next morning, the ava was in great plenty. 

 One man drank so much that he lost his senses. I 

 should have supposed him to be in a fit, from the con- 

 vulsions that agitated him. Two men held him, and 

 kept plucking off his hair by the roots. I left this 

 spectacle to see another more affecting. This was 

 the meeting of Towha and his wife, and a young girl, 

 whom I understood to be his daughter. After the 

 ceremony of cutting their heads, and discharging a 

 tolerable quantity of blood and tears, they washed, 

 embraced the chief, and seemed unconcerned. But 

 the young girl's sufferings were not yet come to an 

 end. Terridiri * arrived ; and she went, with great 

 composure, to repeat the same ceremonies to him, 

 which he had just performed on meeting her father. 

 Towha had brought a large war-canoe from Eimeo. 

 I enquired if he had killed the people belonging to 

 her ; and was told, that there was no man in her when 

 she was captured. 



" We left Tettaha, about ten or eleven o'clock, and 

 landed, close to the moral of Attahooroo, a little 

 after noon. There lay three canoes, hauled upon 

 the beach, opposite the moral, with three hogs ex- 

 posed in each : their sheds, or awnings, had some- 

 thing under them which I could not discern. We 

 expected the solemnity to be performed the same 

 afternoon j but as neither Towha nor Potatou had 

 joined us, nothing was done. 



" A chief from Eimeo came with a small pig, and a 

 plaintain-tree, and placed them at Otoo's feet. They 

 talked some time together ; and the Eimeo chief 

 often repeating the words, Warry, warry, " false," 

 I supposed that Otoo was relating to him what he 

 had heard, and that the other denied it. 



* Terridiri is Oberea'sson. See an account of the royal family 

 of Otaheite in Hatvkestvorth's Collection, vol. ii. p. 154*. 



