46 AVOYAGETO 



CHAP. III. 



Conference with Towha. — Heevas defcribed. — Oinai and 

 Oedidee give Dinners. — Fireworks exhibited. — A re- 

 markable Prejc7it of Cloth. — Manner of preferving the 

 Body of a dead Chief. — ylnother human Sacrifice. — 

 Riding on Horfeback. — Otoo's Attention to fupply Pror 

 vifionSy and preve7Jt Thefts. — Animals give?i to him. — 

 Etary, and the Deputies of a Chief have Audiences. — 

 A Mock fight of Two IV ar Ca?wcs. — Naval Strength 

 of thefe Ifiands. — Manner of co?idu&ing a War, 



«777- ^ 1"^ H E clofc of the very fingular fccne, exhibited at the 

 ^^^^^^^f^ 1 moral, which I have faithfully defcribed in the lad 

 Chapter, leaving us no other bufinefs in Attahooroo, we 

 Tucfday 2. embarked about noon, in order to return to Matavai ; and, 

 in our way, vifited Towha, who had remained on the little 

 ifland, where we met him the day before. Some converfa- 

 tion pafTcd between Otoo and him, on the prefcnt poflure of 

 public afTairs ; and then the latter folicired me, once more, 

 to join them in their war againfl Eimeo. By my pofitive re- 

 f ufal I entirely loft the good graces of this Cliief. 



Before we parted, he afked us, if the folemniry, at which 

 we had been prefcnt, anfwercd our expectations; what opi- 

 nion we had of its efficacy ; and whether we performed fuch 

 atfts of worfliip in our own country? During the celebra- 

 tion of the horrid ceremony, we had prefeivcd a profound 



filcnce ; 



