THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 

 then handed round, and after we had tafted it, Koah and '7?9- 



January. 



Pareea began to pull the flefh of the hog in pieces, and to < — ~v — - 

 put it into our mouths. I had no great objection to being 

 fed by Pareea, who was very cleanly in his perfon ; but 

 Captain Cook, who was ferved by Koah, recollecting the 

 putrid hog, could not f wallow a morfel; and his reluctance, 

 as may be fuppofed, was not diminifhed, when the old man, 

 according to his own mode of civility, had chewed it for 

 him. 



When this laft ceremony was finifhed, which Captain 

 Cook put an end to as foon as he decently could, we quitted 

 the Morai, after diflributing amongft the people fome pieces 

 of iron and other trifles, with which they feemed highly 

 gratified. The men with wands conducted us to the boats, 

 repeating the fame words as before. The people again re- 

 tired, and the few that remained, proftratcd themfclves as 

 we palled along the more. We immediately went on board, 

 our minds full of what we had fcen, and extremely well 

 fatisfied with the good difpofitions of our new friends. The 

 meaning of the various ceremonies, with which we had 

 been received, and which, on account of their novelty and 

 Angularity, have been related at length, can only be the 

 fubject of conjectures, and thofc uncertain and partial : 

 they were, however, without doubt, cxprcflive of high re- 

 fpect on the part of the natives ; and, as far as related to 

 the perfon of Captain Cook, they feemed approaching to 

 adoration. 



The next morning, I went on more with a guard of eight Monday »s. 

 marines, including the corporal and lieutenant, having or- 

 ders to erect the obfervatory in fuch a fituation as might 

 befl enable me to fuperintend and protect the waterers, and 



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