46 S/iel/s as evidence of the Migrations. 



fruit tree. These trumpets are also used b}' the herald, 

 and on board the native fleets. 



Captain Cook also speaks of the natives of Toobouai 

 Island blowing large conch-shells in a long tone without 

 any variation ; but what it portended he could not ascer- 

 tain.'" 



Hutchinson"'' gives a casual reference to the shell- 

 trumpets of the ?klarquesas Islands, saying that they differ 

 from that known as " Bosina " in Peru (see below). 



In Micronesia, shell-trumpets are recorded as in use 

 at Ponape (Ascension Is.), Caroline Islands, and in the 

 Marshall Archipelago.'- Of their use in the Pelew Islands, 

 Captain Wilson tells us'"" that in 1783, as a preliminar\- 

 to an attack on a neighbouring enemy, the king, Abba 

 Thulle, ordered the conch to be sounded as a signal for 

 forming the line of battle. Captain King also refers to 

 the blowing of the conch as a signal of defiance and 

 warning in the Sandwich Islands.'' 



In the New World we have several instances of the 

 use of shells as trumpets. A species of Triton was used 

 formerly by the Indians of South America as a trumpet, 

 and a specimen was dug up at Canete, in Peru. The 

 shell was called " Bosina," on account of the sound pro- 

 duced by blowing into it resembling the roar of a bull, 

 and it was used to announce the approach of any great 

 man into a town. It was ornamented with tassels of 

 human hair, and a leather strap of exquisite workmanship.' 



'■s G. A. Cooke, op. ci/., i. . p. 65. 



"'' Joiirn. Aiithrop. Inst., iv., 1874, p. 13. 



"" O. Finsch, " Eihnologische Erfahrungen und BelegsUicke aus der 

 Siidsee," Anna/, des A'. K. nathisl. Hofmuseuuts, Wien, 18S8 — 93, fide 

 Schmcltz, op. (it. 



-lin >' ^,1 account oi the I'elew Islands, " London, 17S9, p. 150. 



"' (1. A. Cooke, op. cit., i., pp. 306 and 353. 



'- Lovell, op. ci(.,p, 196, quoting Hutchinson'.s "Two Years in Peru, 

 vol. i., p. 134. 



