20 L cook's first voyagc 1769. 



lono-, and, as has been observed before, have only 

 two stops, and consequently but four notes, out of 

 which they seem hitherto to have formed but one 

 tune : to these stops they apply the fore-finger of the 

 left hand and the middle finger of the right. 



The drum is made of a hollow block of wood, of 

 a cylindrical form, solid at one end, and covered at 

 the other with shark's skin: these they beat not with 

 sticks, but their hands ; and they know how to tune 

 two drums of different notes into concord. They 

 have also an expedient to bring the flutes that play 

 too-ether into unison, which is to roll up a leaf so as 

 to slip over the end of the shortest, like our sliding 

 tubes for telescopes, which they move up or down till 

 the purpose is answered, of which they seem to judge 

 by their ear with great nicety. 



To these instruments they sing; and, as I have 

 observed before, their songs are often extempore : 

 they call every two verses or couplet a song, Pehay : 

 they are generally, though not always, in rhime ; and 

 when pronounced by the natives, we could discover 

 that they were metre. Mr. Banks took great pains 

 to write down some of them which were made upon 

 our arrival, as nearly as he could express their sounds 

 by combinations of our letters ; but when we read 

 them, not having their accent, we could scarcely 

 make them eitlier metre or rhime. The reader will 

 easily perceive that they are of very different struc- 

 ture. 



Tede pahai de parow-a 

 Ha maru no mina. 



E pahah Tayo malama tai ya 



No Tabane tonatou whannomi ya. 



E Turai eattu terara patee whennua toai 

 Ino o maio Pretane to whennuaia no Tute. 



