200 VOYAGES OF A NATURALIST 



" We rode down to a cave by the sea on the 

 west side, called in the map c Hangaroa.' There 

 were many paintings in red and white and black, 

 principally frigate birds (Fig. 7), and a man-of-war 



FIG. 6. Designs carved in the rock outside the houses at the lip 

 of the crater. 



with white portholes, and another square-sailed 

 ship. These do not appear to be of great 

 antiquity. 



" In the village I got some rough obsidian spear- 

 heads and a large stone adze.* 



" Mr. Cooper tells me that there are, in other 



FIG. 7. A painting in a cave of a frigate bird. 



parts of the island, inscriptions in stone, but we 

 saw none ; he describes them as like ' Japanese 



* An obsidian implement which we brought home, has been sub- 

 mitted to Mr. J. Edge-Partington, who kindly writes to me concerning 

 it as follows : " It is a cutting implement, probably at one time 

 mounted on a wooden handle. I have figured one from British Museum 

 Collection in Edge-Partington and Heape Ethnographical Album of 

 the Pacific Islands/ 1st S. f PL 3, No. 5." 



