1^0 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



fliark's tooth, with which he was going to tear 

 his cheeks in order to exprefs the violence of 

 his grief, if v/e had not prevented him. 



Phyfic is pradifed among thefe iflanders with 

 a myfterious ceremony. One of our people, 

 who was accompanying us along the beach, 

 having put his wrift out of joint in making an 

 effort, a native offered to relieve him, and very 

 foon fuccecded in fetting it: but at the fame 

 time he blew on it repeatedly, wifhing no doubt 

 hat we fnould attribute to his blowing the 

 cure which he had juft pertonvicd. 



We faw on the fea-fhore fe verai natives em- 

 ployed in fquaring fome large calcareous ftones, 

 which we were tol4 were to ferve for erecting 

 the burial-place of a chief, one of Futtafaihe's re- 

 lations. They carried them away, after having 

 detached thefn by breaking them with a volca- 

 nic flint, which they had taken the precaution, 

 to furround near the middle with pieces of mat, 

 in order to prevent the fplinters of the ftones 

 from flying in their eyes. Thefe ftones were 

 almoll at the furfice of the earth, and difpofed 

 in flrata a decimeter in thicknefs. 



We had before remarked among thefe peo- 

 ple a game v.hich they call Icagiii, and which 

 requires a confidcrable degree of attention. It 

 is [dayed by two pcrfons, and confilis in one of 

 ihcni endeavouring to repeat inflantaneoufly the 



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