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most minute parts of the tackling. The Owhyeeans, 

 however, build their boats according to the ancient 

 mode, single or double. Larger double canoes, 

 belonging to the king, which serve for communi- 

 cation between the different islands, are rigged 

 after the European fashion. We must not confound, 

 with Zimmermann, (in his Australia,) the boats of 

 Eastern Polynesia (the Friendly, the Sandwich 

 islands, &c.) which go with oars, and with sails only 

 before the wind, with the ingenious vessels of the 

 islanders of the first province (the Ladrones, &c.) 

 which go with sails only, and with all winds. We 

 have been made sufficiently acquainted with the 

 former by Cook and other modern navigators, and 

 with the latter by Dampier, Anson, &c. 



Besides navigation, the warlike Owhyeeans take a 

 pleasure in their weapons, especially their lances. 

 They delight in warlike games, which are not free 

 from danger, and even, when children, practise 

 throwing the dart. The favouiite play of the boys 

 and youths, is to contend in throwing short and light 

 reeds with which the wind plays, with certainty at 

 an unsteady mark, and seems to allude to this 

 weapon. They have but few other sports. Their 

 game at draughts, which was found among them, 

 has been superseded by the European draughts. 



Poetry, music, and dancing, which, in the South 

 Sea islands, appear hand in iiand, in their orignal 

 union, to adorn human life, deserve to be particu- 

 larly attended to. The spectacle of the Hurra, the 



