CONTENTS. Vll 



CHAP. VII. 



General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued. — Of the 



Inhabitants. — Their Origin Persons. — Pernicious Effects of 



the Ava. — Numbers. — Disposition and Manners. — Reasons 

 for supposing them not Cannibals. — Dress and Ornaments. — 

 Villages and Houses. — Food. — Occupations and Amusements. 



— Addicted to Gaming. — Their extraordinary Dexterity in 

 Swimming. — Arts and Manufactures. — Curious Specimens of 

 their Sculpture. — Kipparee, or Method of painting Cloth. — 

 Mats. — Fishing Hooks. — Cordage. — Salt Pans. — Warlike In- 

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CHAP. VIII. 



General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued. — Govern- 

 ment. — People divided into three Classes. — Power of Eree- 

 taboo. — Genealogy of the Kings of Owhyhee and Mowee. — 

 Power of the Chiefs. — State of the inferior Class. — Punish- 

 ment of Crimes. — Religion. — Society of Priests. — The Orono. 



— Their Idols. — Songs chanted by the Chiefs, before they 

 drink Ava. — Human Sacrifices. — Custom of knocking out the 

 fore Teeth. — Notions with regard to a future State. — Mar- 

 riages.— Remarkable Instance of Jealousy. — Funeral Rites 141 



BOOK VI. 



Transactions during the Second Expedition to the North, by 

 the Way of Kamptschatka; and on the return Home, by 

 the Way of Canton and the Cape of Good Hope. 



CHAP. I. 



Departure from Oneeheow. — Fruitless Attempt to discover 

 Modoopapappa. — Course steered for Awatska Bay. — Occur- 

 rences during that Passage. — Sudden Change from Heat to 



Cold. — Distress occasioned by the leaking of the Resolution. 



View of the Coast of Kamtschatka. — Extreme rigour of the 

 Climate. — Lose Sight of the Discovery. — The Resolution 

 enters the Bay of Awatska. — Prospect of the Town of St. Peter 

 and St. Paul. — Party sent Ashore. — Their Reception by the 



Commanding Officer of the Port Message dispatched to the 



Commander at Bolcheretsk. — Arrival of the Discovery. — Re- 

 turn of the Messengers, from the Commander. — Extraordinary 

 Mode of Travelling. — Visit from a Merchant, and a German 

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