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and a half distant from each other ; the southernmost 

 is the widest, and on the south side of it lies a very 

 small sandy island. 



Huaheine seems to be a month forwarder in its 

 j3roductions than Otaheite, as we found the cocoa- 

 nuts full of kernel, and some of the new bread-fruit 

 fit to eat. Of the cocoa-nuts the inhabitants make a 

 food which they call Poe, by mixing them with yams; 

 they scrape both fine, and having incorporated the 

 powder, they put it into a wooden trough, with a 

 number of hot stones, by which an oily kind of hasty- 

 pudding is made, that our people relished very w^ell^ 

 especially when it was fried. Mr. Banks found not 

 more than eleven or twelve new plants ; but he ob- 

 served some insects, and a species of scorpion which 

 he had not seen before. 



The inhabitants seem to be larger made, and more 

 stout, than those of Otaheite. Mr. Banks measured 

 one of the men, and found him to be six feet three 

 inches and an half high ; yet they are so lazy, that he 

 could not persuade any of them to go up the hills 

 with him : they said, if they were to attempt it, the 

 fatigue would kill them. The women were very fair, 

 more so than those of Otaheite ; and in general, we 

 thought them more handsome, though none that 

 were equal to some individuals. Both sexes seemed 

 to be less timid, and less curious : it has been ob- 

 served, that they made no inquiries on board the 

 ship ; and when we fired a gun, they were frighted 

 indeed, but they did not fall down, as our friends at 

 Otaheite constantlv did when we first came amons: 

 them. For this difference, however, we can easily 

 account upon other principles ; the people at Hua- 

 heine had not seen the Dolphin, those at Otaheite 

 had. In one, the report of a gun was connected 

 with the idea of instant destruction ; to the other, 

 there was nothing dreadful in it but the appearance 

 and the sound, as they had never experienced its 

 power of dispensing death. 



