T H E P A C I F I C O C E A N. 22; 



Belidcs the vegetable articles, bought by us as refrefii- p^^J^^, 



nients, aoiongd; which were, at leaft, five or fix varieties of 

 plantains, the illand produces bread-fruit; though it feems 

 to be fcarce, as we faw only one tree, which was large, and 

 had fomc fruit upon it. There are alfo a few cocoa-palms ; 

 yams, as we were told, for we faw none ; the kappe of the 

 Friendly Iflands, or Virginian arum ; the etooa tree, and fweet 

 fmclling gardenia, or cape jajinine. We faw feveral trees of 

 the dooe dooe, fo ufeful at Otahcitc, as bearing the oily nuts, 

 which are (luck upon a kind of fkewer, and burnt as 

 candles. Our people faw tiiem ufed, in the fame manner, 

 at Oneeheow. We were not on fliore at Atooi but in the 

 day time, and then we faw the natives wearing thefe nuts, 

 hung on firings, round the neck. There is a fpccies of fida^ 

 or Indian mallow, fomcwhat altered, by the climate, from 

 what we faw at Chriflmas Ifland ; the morinda citrifolia, which 

 is called none ; a fpecics of coiwolvnlm ; the ava^ or intoxicat- 

 ing pepper ; and great numbers of gourds. Thefe lad 

 grow to a very large fize, and are of a vaft variety of fhapcs, 

 which probably is ellcifled by art. Upon the dry fand, 

 about the village, grew a plant, that we had never feen in 

 thefe fcas, of the fize of a common thiftle, and prickly, like 

 that ; but bearing a fine flower, almoft refembling a white 

 poppy. This, with another fmall one, were the only un- 

 common plants, which our fliort cxcurfion gave us an op- 

 portunity of obferving. 



The fcarlet birds, already dcfcribcd, which were brought 

 for fale, were never met with alive ; but we faw a fingle 

 fmall one, abput the fize of a canary-bird, of a deepcrimfon 

 colour; a large owl ; two large brown hawks, or kites ; and a 

 wild duck. The natives mentioned the names of feveral other 

 birds ; amongft which we knew the otoo^ or blueifh heron ; 



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