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>777; larce war canoe from Eimeo. I enquired if he had killed 



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the people belongmg to her; and was told, that there was 

 no man in her when flic was captured. 



We left Tettaha, about ten or eleven o'clock, and landed, 

 tlofe to the vioral of Attahooroo, a httle. after noon. There 

 lay three canoes, hauled upon the beach, oppofite the ;;;ora/, 

 with three hogs expoied in each : their flieds, or awnings, 

 had fomething under them which I could not difcern. , We 

 cxpcclcd the folemnity to be performed the fame afternoon ; 

 but as neither Towha nor Potatou had joined us, nothing 

 was done. 



A Chief from Eimeo came with a fmall pig, and a plan- 

 tain-tree, and placed ihem at Otoo's feet. They talked fome 

 time together -, and the Eimeo Chief often repeating the 

 w'orpls, IViirryy ivarry, " falle," I fuppofed that Otoo was re- 

 lating to him what he had heard, and that the other de- 

 nied it. 



The next day (Wednefday) Towha, and Potatou, with 

 about eight large canoes, arrived, and landed near the vioraif 

 Many plantain-trees were brought, on the part of different 

 Chiefs, to Otoo. Towha did not ftir from his canoe. The cere- 

 mony began by the principal priefl bringing out the maroy 

 wrapped up ; and a bundle, fhaped like a large fugar-loaf. 

 Thefe were placed at the head of v/hat I ur.dcrftood to be a 

 grave. Then three pricfls came, and fat down oppofite, 

 that is, at the other end of the grave; bringing with them a 

 plantainTtrce, the branch of fome other tree, and the fheath 

 of the flower of the cocoa-nut tree. 



The pricfls, with thcfe things in their hands, feparately 

 repeated fentenccs; and, at intervals, two, and fomctimes 

 all three fung a melancholy ditty, little attended to by the 

 people. This praying and finging continued for an hour. 

 Then, after a iiiort prayer, the principal priefl uncovered 

 4 the 



