142 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



This is the manner in which {he expreffed her- 

 {qU !aI>ou mitzi mitzi. Thefe terms are rather 

 too ingenuous for me to venture to give a lite- 

 ral tranflation of them, as may be feen in rhe 

 vocabulary of the language of the Friendly 

 Iflands, inferted towards the end of this volume. 

 We remarked, in the poirefTion of a woman 

 who appeared to enjoy a certain degree of con- 

 fequence, a fort of mat, nearly two thirds of a 

 meter fquare, woven with white hair of a horfe's 

 rail : perhaps it belonged to thofe horfes which 

 Cook had left on this ifland ; but Ihe would not 

 fatisfy our curiolity in this refpedt. 



The King had commanded his fubjecfls to 

 bring the prefents which he intended for the 

 Admiral. From half pad ten o'clock we faw 

 arriving, at intervals, a great many iflanders, 

 each of whom carried on his fliouldcr a bam- 

 boo two meters long, at the extremities of 

 which were fufpended fome rather fmall fiflies 

 of t\\t fcanis and cbcvtodon genera, moft of them 

 dreffed, and wrapped up in leaflets of the cocoa- 

 palm ; others brought bread-fruit, yams, &c.; 

 and they prcfcntly raifed, by croffing their bam- 

 boos, two portions of triangular pyramids, one 

 two meters high, and the other only one meter. 

 The raw fiihes already began to fpread a very 

 tainted fmell. 

 About one o'clock Toohou went away without 



faying 



