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lity as a pack of liounds. In this place we saw no 

 house that appeared to be inhabited, but the ruins of 

 many that had been very large. We proceeded along 

 the shore, which forms a bay, called Oaitipeha, 

 and at last we found the chief sitting near some 

 pretty canoe awnings, under which, we supposed, 

 he and his attendants slept. He was a thin old man, 

 with a very white head and beard, and had with him 

 a comely woman, about five-and-twenty years old, 

 whose name was^TouDiDDE. We had often heard the 

 name of this woman, and, from report and observ- 

 ation, we had reason to think that she was the Oberea 

 of this peninsula. From this place, between which 

 and the isthmus there are other harbours, formed by 

 the reefs that lie along the shore, where shipping 

 may lie in perfect security, and from whence the land 

 trends S. S. E. and S. to the S. E. part of the island, 

 we were accompanied by Tearee, the son of Wa- 

 heatua, of whom we had purchased a hog, and the 

 country we passed through appeared to be more cul- 

 tivated than any we had seen in other parts of the 

 island : the brooks were every where banked into 

 narrow channels with stone, and the shore had also a 

 facing of stone, where it was washed by the sea. The 

 houses were neither large nor numerous, but the ca- 

 noes that were hauled up along the shore were almost 

 innumerable, and superior to any that we had seen 

 before, both in size and make ; they were longer, the 

 sterns were higher, and the awnings were supported by 

 pillars. At almost every point there was a sepulchral 

 building, and there were many of them also inland. 

 They were of the same figure as those in Opoureonu, 

 but they were cleaner and better kept, and deco- 

 rated with many carved boards, which were set up- 

 right, and on the top of which were various figures 

 of birds and men. On one in particular, there was 

 the representation of a cock, which was painted 

 red and yellow, to imitate the feathers of that animal, 

 and rude images of men were, in some of tliem, 

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