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coniiderable extent, furrounded by a wall of ftone, about four '778. 



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feet high. The fpace inclofed was loofely paved with fmaller < ,r— '. 



Hones ; and at one end of it, flood what I call the pyramid, but, 

 in the language of the ifland, is named henananQo\ which ap- 

 peared evidently to be an exadl model of the larger one, ob- 

 fervcd by us from the fliips. It was about four feet fquare at 

 the bafe, and about twenty feet high. The four fides were 

 compofed of fmall poles interwoven with twigs and branches, ■ 

 thus forming an indifferent wicker-work, hollow or open 

 within, from bottom to top. It feemed to be rather in a ruin- 

 ous ftate ; but there were fufficient remaining marks, to fhew, 

 that it had originally been covered with a thin, light, grey 

 cloth ; which thefe people, it fliould feem, confecrate to re- 

 ligious purpofes ; as we could fee a good deal of it hang- 

 ing in different parts of the moral ; and fome of it had been 

 forced upon me when I firft landed. On each fide of the 

 pyramid were long pieces of wicker-work, called hereanee, 

 in the fame ruinous condition ; with two flender poles, in- 

 clining to each other, at one corner, where fome plantains 

 were laid upon a board, fixed at the height of five or fix feet. 

 This they called herabemy ; and informed us, that the fruit 

 was an offering to their God, which makes it agree exadlly 

 with the ivbatta of Otaheite. Before the henanamo were a 

 few pieces of wood, carved into fomething like human 

 figures, which, with a (lone near two feet high, covered 

 with pieces of cloth, called hobo, and confecrated to Tongarooa, 

 who is the God of thefe people. Hill more and more re- 

 minded us of what we ufed to meet with in the morals of the 

 iflands we had lately left *. Adjoining to thefe, on the 

 outfide of the morale was a fmall Ihed, no bigger than a dog- 



* See tlic defcription of the morai, in Otaheite, where the human facrificc was of- 

 fered, at which Captain Cook was prefent. 



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