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immediately ensues ; and they then endeavour to find out 

 some enemies, who are cither eaten or merely hung up, T do 

 not exactly know which, in honour of the deceased. When 

 the priest dreams that he has eaten human flesh, he tells 

 whether the person was tatooed or not, and gives nearly a 

 correct description ot" him. A state of war now ensues; 

 that is to say, some of" them creep towards the enemy to 

 endeavour to tind a person answering this description, and, 

 ficcording to their opinion, the person of whom the priest 

 • dreams, will always fall into their liands ; the person is al- 

 ways a kikino, that is, one who has broken tuaino. The 

 frenchman had been in several of the Marquesa islands ; 

 first in Santa Christina. The people, manners, and cus-r 

 toms, are in all the same. 



On the 18th of May we took advantage of a light breeze 

 to get out of Anna Maria or Tayohoae Bay. On this oc^ 

 casion the Frenchman remained on hoard. We had for- 

 gotten to send him on shore. When we were out in the 

 open sea, the wind was so stronn; and so fresh, that, though 

 an excellent swimmer, he would not venture to swnn back 

 to the shore. Our passage to the Sandwich islands, as is 

 always the case between the tropics, was pleasant and agree- 

 able, the weather being always tine, 



On the Sth of June, in the afternoon, we were opposite 

 to the south-east coast of the island of 0-why-he, at the 

 distance of about three or four Italian miles. The natives 

 brought off to us a dish of sweet potatoes and a small hog ; 

 one of the women also came on board the ship. Towards 

 night we stood off from the land, and next day were at the 

 southern extremity at about the same distance as the pre- 

 ceding day. We purchased a small hog ; a larger one they 

 carried back with them because we could gi\c them no 

 cloth, pf which they wanted a large quantity. A frock 

 which we offered them was too small for them. On knives, 

 axes, and mirrors, they set no value ; and therefore we supr 

 posed that they nmst have been supplied with all these arti- 

 cles by the English and the Ainericans. Several of them 

 spoke a little English : a wonian who was among them held 

 out her hand to us, and kept continually repeating,:-:-" How 

 do you dp ? Very well." 



On the 10th we were opposite to the western coast. We 

 here sciw the large mountain Morno Roa, which is said to 

 be as \\\<y\\ as the Peak of Tenerift'e. As the summit of it is 

 very broadp it does not appear to have the same elevation. 

 Wc were a great way from the shorcj a^d \\o boats came 

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