310 cook's first voyage OCT. 



As they were returning to the watering-place in 

 the evening, they met an old man, who detained 

 them some time by showing them the military exer- 

 cises of the country with the lance and patoo-patoo, 

 which are all the weapons in use. The lance is from 

 ten to fourteen feet long, made of a very hard wood, 

 and sharp at both ends: the patoo-patoo has been 

 described already: it is about a foot long, made of 

 talc or bone, with sharp edges, and used as a battle- 

 axe. A post or stake was set up as his enemy, to 

 which he advanced with a most furious aspect, 

 brandishing his lance, which he grasped with great 

 firmness ; when it was supposed to have been pierced 

 by his lance, he ran at it with his patoo-patoo, and 

 falling upon the upper end of it, which was to repre- 

 sent his adversary's head, he laid on with great vehe- 

 mence, striking many blows, any one of which would 

 probably have split the skull of an ox. From our 

 champion's falling upon his mock enemy with the 

 patoo-patoo, after he was supposed to have been 

 pierced with the lance, our gentlemen inferred, that 

 in the battles of this country their is no quarter. 



This afternoon, we set up the armourer's forge, to 

 repair the braces of the tiller, which had been broken, 

 and went on getting our wood and water, without 

 suffering the least molestation from the natives ; who 

 came down with different sorts of fish, which we 

 purchased with cloth, beads, and glass-bottles, as 

 usual. 



On the 25th, Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander went 

 again on shore j and while they were searching for 

 plants, Tupia staid with the waterers : among other 

 Indians who came down to them, was a priest, with 

 whom Tupia entered into a very learned convers- 

 ation. In their notions of religion they seemed to 

 agree very well, which is not often the case between 

 learned divines on our side of the ocean : Tupia, 

 however, seemed to have the most knowledge, and 

 he was listened to with great deference and attention 



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