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touched with a switch, so that it moves forward, 

 and they cross each other, the islands are shaken to 

 their foundations, and the earthquake does not cease 

 till both occupy their former situation. Above 

 these fisli, and the water in which tliey live, a 

 house is built, and over it watch the chiefs, at 

 whose death there sometimes occurs an earthquake. 

 A certain Eonopei (he is now dead, his son Ta- 

 managack is a chief of the territory of Eleal) once 

 showed our friend Kadu a remarkable specimen of 

 his art. Eonopei prepared a round flat cake out of 

 taro dough. It was night and full moon. He began, 

 with conjurations, to eat his cake. In proportion 

 as he bit into the edge of it, the full disk of 

 the moon was impaired and hollowed out, more 

 and more, in the form of a sickle. When he had 

 thus, for a time, magically eaten at the moon, he 

 altered this process and his conjurations. He 

 now began to knead the soft douijh of his cake, 

 which remained, again into a full circle ; at the 

 same time the disk of the moon equally increased, 

 and at last the moon shone quite full. Kadu, 

 during this time, sat next to the conjuror, looked 

 at every thing, the moon and the cake, with the 

 greatest attention, and wondered how the circle of 

 each cotild, simultaneously, first decrease and 

 then encrease. We make no comments upon the 

 account of our simple-minded friend, of whose 

 veracity we have not the least suspicion, and leave 

 it lor more learned commentators, to apply it to 



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