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than any the gentlemen had before seen. Such a prelude 

 made them expect much from the owners a boat-load of 

 hogs was the least they thought of, especially as they had 

 plenty of Spartan money to pay for them ; but, alack ! 

 the gentlemen who had fatigued themselves with building 

 their houses chose to refresh themselves with eating 

 the hogs, so that after the whole day was spent a small 

 number only were procured in proportion to what were 

 expected. 



Took Mr. Parkinson to the heiva that he might sketch 

 the dresses. The dancing was exactly the same as I had 

 seen before, except that another woman was added to the 

 former two. The interludes of the men were varied ; they 

 gave us five or six which resembled much the drama of an 

 English stage dance. Their names and relationships, as 

 they are chiefly one family, are : (1) Tiarree no Horaa, a 

 king or chief. (2) WTiannooutooa, wife to 1. (3) Otodbooi, 

 sister to 2. (4) Orai, elder brother to 2. (5) Tettuanne, 

 younger brother to 2. (6) Otehammena, dancing girl. (7) 

 Ouratooa, do. (8), MatteJiea, father to 1. (9) Opipi, mother 

 to 1. 



8th. Dr. Solander and I went along shore to gather 

 plants, buy hogs, or anything else that might occur. We 

 took our course towards the heiva, and at last came up with 

 it. It has gradually moved from very near us till now it is 

 two leagues off. Tupia tells us that it will in this manner 

 move gradually round the island. Our friends received us, 

 as usual, with all manner of civility, dancing, and giving us, 

 after the amusement, a very good dinner, as well as offering 

 us a quantity of their cloth as a present, which we should 

 have accepted had we not been full-stocked with it before. 

 We now understood a little more of the interludes than 

 formerly. I shall describe one as well as I can. The men 

 were divided into two parties, differing in the colour of their 

 clothes, one brown, the other white. The chief of the browns 

 gives a basket of meat to his servants that they might take 

 care of it. The whites represent thieves who constantly 

 attempt to steal it, dancing all the time. Several different 



