4,56 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



honourable e«timatlon in which 

 their arts are held, or their own 

 interest, or the common custom. 



None of them are matabooles 

 but a few of the canoe builders 

 and the superintendants of funeral 

 rites, perhaps about a fifth or a 

 sixth part of them, and some of 

 these are very expert in cutting 

 orBaments out of whales teeth for 

 necklaces, or for inlaying clubs, 

 likewise in making clubs and 

 spears, and other warlike instru- 

 ments, which are not separate 

 pi'ofessions, but arts practised by 

 the canoe-buiklers as being expert 

 in the use of the togi or axe ; at 

 least there are no toofoonga fvno le 

 (inlayers of ivory), nor toofoonga 

 gnahi mea tow (makers of warlike 

 instruments), but wlio are also 

 canoe-builders. All the toofoonga 

 fo vaca (canoe-builders), and too- 

 foonga taboo (intendantsof funeral 

 rites), that are not matabooles, are 

 mooas, for no person of so low a 

 rank as a tooa can practise such 

 respectable arts. 



The remaining professions are 

 followed both by mooas and tooas, 

 with the exception of the three 

 following, viz. toofoonga fy cava 

 (barbers or shavers with shells), 

 tangata fe oomoo (cooks), and ley 

 fonnooa (peasants), all of whom 

 are tooas. 



Of the dilTerent f)rofessions, 

 some are hereditary in the way 

 before nieiuinned, and some are 

 not ; the latter consist of toofoonga 

 ta tattoiv (those who perform the 

 tattow), toofoonga tongi acow (club 

 car\ers, or engravers of the han- 

 dle, not inlayers) ; and toofoonga 

 fy cava (barbers). The arts fol- 

 lowed by the.se are not hereditary, 

 because they aie not of that re- 

 spectability to engage a n;an to 



follow any of them because his 

 father did the same j they are 

 practised by any one who has a 

 natural turn that way. 



But the two lowest of all, vh, 

 the cooks and peasants, are such 

 by inheritance. Sot the chiefs in 

 whose service they may be, neces- 

 sarily require their services, and 

 their children naturally succeed 

 them, for neither of these arts re- 

 quire any great talent to learn : 

 every body knows how to cook 

 and till the ground in a tolerable 

 degree ; but those who are born 

 to no better fate have no alterna- 

 tive left them, they must follow 

 these necessary employments as 

 the business of their life, if their 

 chiefs command them ; and to 

 such alone the terms cook and 

 peasants are here applied. The 

 cook is somewhat the superior; 

 he sees to the supplying of provi- 

 sions, takes care of the store- 

 house, looks to the thatching and 

 fences of the dwelling-house, oc- 

 casionally gives an eye to the plan- 

 tation, and sometimes works upon 

 it himself. The head cook is ge- 

 nerally not a little proud of him- 

 self, and is looked on with some 

 respect by the cooks below him 

 and the common peasants. 



The term cook is frequently ap- 

 plied to a man though he be not a 

 cook, to signify that he is of very 

 low rank : for although a cook 

 belonging to a chief may give him- 

 self many airs, and be thought 

 something of by the connnon tooai 

 about him ; yet if there be a com- 

 pany of peasants together, he that 

 has the least to boast of in respect 

 of family connexions is sure to 

 be made tlie cook, and us it were 

 servant to the rest. 



The following then will be the 



order 



