THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



I did not much like this reftriclion ; and, therefore, flolc 

 our, to fee what might now be going forward. I found 

 very few people ilirring, except thofe dreflcd to attend tlic 

 ceremony ; feme of wliom had in their hands fniall poles, 

 about four feet long, and to the under-part of thefe were 

 faCtened two or three other flicks, not bigger than one's 

 finger, and about fix inches in length. Thefe men were 

 going toward the anrai juft mentioned. I took the fame 

 road, and was, feveral times, flopped by them, all crying 

 out taboo. However, I went forward, without much regard- 

 ing them, till I came in fight of the moral., and of the people 

 who were fitting before it. I was now urged, very (Irongly 

 to go back; and, not knowing what might be the confe- 

 quence of a refufal, I complied. I had obferved, that the 

 people, who carried the poles, pafTed this morai, or what I 

 may, as well, call temple ; and gueffing, from this circum- 

 flance, that fomething was tranfadling beyond it, which 

 might be worth looking at, I had thoughts of advancing, 

 by making a round, for tliis purpofe ; but I was fo clofely 

 watched by three men, that I could not put my defign in 

 execution. In order to fliake thefe fellows od', I returned 

 to the vuilacc, where I had left the king, and, from thence, 

 made an elopement a fecoiid time ; but I inilantly met with 

 ihe fame thice men ; io that it feemed, as if they had been 

 ordered to watch my morions. I paid no regard to what 

 they faid or did, till I came within light of the king's prin- 

 cipal /^/oi (.2 or moral, which I have already defcribed*, before 

 which a great number of men were fitting, being the fame 

 perfons whom I had jud before feen pafs by the other moral., 

 from which this was but a little diftant. Obferving, that I 

 could watch the proceedings of this company from the 



* See p. 313. 



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