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«7-7- rccriiniiiatlons and nroteflntions of their good inications. 



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> In the midft ot their fpcaking, a man ot Attahooroo got up, 

 with a fling f'aftcncd to his waift, and a large Hone placed 

 upon his flioulder. After parading near a quarter of an 

 hour, in the open fpace, repeating fomething in a fmging 

 tone, he threw the ftone down. Tiiis Hone, and a plantain 

 tree that lay at Otoo's feet, were, after the fpeeches ended, 

 carried to the 77iorai ; and one of the priefls, and Otoo with 

 him, faid fomething upon the occafion. 



On our return to'Oparre, the fca breeze having fet in, we 

 were obliged to land ; and had a plcafant walk through al- • 

 moll the whole extent of Tettaha to Oparre. A tree, with 

 two bundles of dried leaves fufpended upon it, marked the 

 boundary of the two diftricfls. The man who had per- 

 formed the ceremony of the ftone and fling came with us. 

 With him, Otoo's father had a long converfation. He 

 iccmcd very angry. 1 underflood, he was enraged at the 

 p:!rt Towha had taken in the Eimeo bufmefs." 



From what I can judge of this folemnity, as thus de- 

 '■ fcribed by Mr. King, it had not been wholly a thankfgiving, 

 as Omai told us ; bur rather a confirmation of the treaty ; 

 cr, perhaps, both. The grave, which Mr. King fpcaks of, 

 iccms to be the very fpot where the celebration of the rites 

 began, wlien the human facrifice, at which I was prcfcnt, 

 was ofFercd, and before which the victim was laid, after 

 being removed from the fca fide. It is at this part of the tnorai, 

 alfo, that they fiifl. invert their kings with the maro. Omai, 

 wlio iiad been prcfcnt when Otoo was made king, defcribcd 

 to me the whole ceremony, when we were here ; and I find 

 It to be almort. the fame, as this that Mr. Kiog has now de- 

 fcribcd, though we undcrllood it to be upon a very dilUcrcnt 

 occafion. The plantain tree, i'o often mentioned, is always 



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