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call the pyramid, but, in the language of the island, 

 is named henananoo ; which appeared evidently to be 

 an exact model of the larger one, observed by us 

 from the ships. It was about four feet square at the 

 base, and about twenty feet high. The four sides 

 were composed of small poles interwoven with twigs 

 and branches, thus forming an indifferent wicker- 

 work, hollow or open within, from bottom to top. 

 It seemed to be rather in a ruinous state ; but there 

 were sufficient remaining marks to show that it had 

 originally been covered with a thin, light, grey cloth ; 

 which these people, it should seem, consecrate to 

 religious purposes ; as we could see a good deal of it 

 hanging in different parts of the moral ; and some of 

 it had been forced upon me when I first landed. On 

 each side of the pyramid were long pieces of wicker- 

 work, called hereanee, in the same ruinous condition ; 

 with two slender poles, inclining to each other, at 

 one corner, where some plantains were laid upon a 

 board, fixed at the height of five or six feet. This 

 they called herairemy ; and informed us that the fruit 

 was an offering to their god, which makes it agree 

 exactly with the wkatta of Otaheite. Before the 

 henananoo were a few pieces of wood, carved into 

 something like human figures, which, with a stone 

 near two feet high, covered with pieces of cloth 

 called hoho, and consecrated to Tongarooa, who is 

 the god of these people, still more and more re- 

 minded us of what we used to meet with in the morals 

 of the islands we had lately left.* Adjoining to 

 these, on the outside of the moral, was a small shed, 

 no bigger than a dog-kennel, which they called ha 

 reepahoo ; and before it was a grave, where, as we 

 were toid, the remains of a woman lay. 



On the farther side of the area of the moral, stood 

 a house or shed about forty feet long, ten broad* in 

 the middle, each end being narrower, and about ten 



* See the description of the moral, in Otaheite, where the 

 human sacrifice was offered, at which Captain Cook was present. 



