THE PACIFIC OCEAN. i 5 r 



Ions, are applied to all manner of domeftic purpofes ; and in '779' 

 order to fit them the better to their refpeetive ufes, they have 

 the ingenuity to give them different forms, by tying band- 

 ages round them during their growth. Thus, fome of 

 them are of a long, cylindrical form, as beft adapted to con- 

 tain their fifhing-tack'e ; others are of a dim form, and 

 thefe ferve to hold their fait, and faked provifions, their 

 puddings, vegetables, &x. ; which two forts have neat clofe 

 covers, made likewife of the gourd; others again are ex- 

 actly the fhape of a bottle with a long neck, and in thefe 

 they keep thci water. They have likewife a method of 

 fcoring them ■ ith u heated inflrument, fo as to give them 

 the appearance of being painted, in a variety of neat and 

 elegant defigns. 



Amongft their arts, we muft not forget that of making 

 fait, with which we were amply fupplied, during our flay at 

 thefe iflands, and which was perfectly good of its kind. 

 Their falt-pans are made of earth, lined with clay ; being 

 generally fix or eight feet fquare, and about eight inches 

 deep. They are railed upon a bank of flones near the high 

 watermark, from whence the fait water is conducted to the 

 foot of them, in fmall trenches, out of which thev are fill- 

 ed, and the fun quickly performs he necellary procefs of 

 evaporation. The fait we procured at Atooi and Oneehcow 

 on our firft vifit, was of a brown and dirty fort; but that 

 which we afterward got in Karakakooa Bay, was white, and 

 of a mofl excellent quality, and in great abundance. Bc- 

 fides the quantity we ufed in fairing pork, we filled all our 

 empty calks, amounting to fixteen puncheons, in the Refo 

 lution only. 



Their inftruments of war are fpears ; daggers, called pa* 

 hooai ; clubs ; and flings. The fpears are of two forts, and 



made 



