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A VOYAGE TO 



J777. believe, that when (lie is angry with them, the produftions 

 u, %i! — I of the earth are blafted; that many things are deftroycd by 

 iightning; and that they themfelves are afflicted with fick- 

 nefs and death, as well as their hogs and other animals. 

 When this anger abates, they fnppofe that every thing is 

 reftored to its natural order ; and it fliould feem, that they 

 have a great reliance on the efficacy of their endeavours 

 to appeafe their offended divinity. They alfo admit a 

 plurality of deities, though all inferior to Kail afoot on ga. 

 Amongft them, they mention Toofooa-hoolootoo^ God of the 

 clouds and fog; Tdleteboo, and fome others, refiding in the 

 heavens. The firfl in rank and power, who has the go- 

 vernment of the fea, and' its produ<flions, is called Fnttafaihe^ 

 or, as it was fomctimes pronounced, Footafooa ; who, they 

 fay, is a male, and has for his wife Fykava hajeea : and here, 

 as in heaven, there are feveral inferior potentates, fuch as 

 Vahaa fonooa, Tareea'va, Mattaba, Evaroo, and others. The 

 fitme religious fyftem, however, does not extend all over the 

 duller of the Friendly Ifles; for the fupreme God of Hapaee, 

 for inftance, is called ^/o ^/o ; and other ifles have two or 

 three, of different names. But their notions of the power, and 

 other attributes of thefc beings, are fo very abfurd, that they 

 fuppofe they have no farther concern with them after death* 



They have, however, very proper fentiments about the 

 immateriality and the immortality of the foul. They call it 

 life, the living principle, or, what is more agreeable to their 

 notions of it, an Ctooa ; that is, a divinity, or invifible be- 

 ing. They fay, that, immediately upon death, the fouls of 

 their Chiefs feparate from their bodies, and go to a place 

 QTiW^dBoolootoo; the Chief, or god, of which, is Gookho. This 

 Gooleho feems to be a perfonification of death ; for they ufed 

 to fay to us, " You, and the men of Fcejee (by this junc- 

 8. " tiou. 



