Corzxso.—JManibus Parkinsonibus sacrum. 195 
“ The natives behaved very civil to us; they are, in general, lean and tall 
yet well-shaped, have faces like Europeans, and, in general, the aquiline 
nose, with dark-coloured eyes, black hair which is tied up on the crown of 
the head, and beards of a middling length. *  * Their cloth is white and 
as glossy as silk, worked by hands, and wrought as even as if it had been 
done in a loom, and is chiefly worn by the men though it is made by the 
women, who also earry burdens and do all the drudgery. Many of the 
women that we saw had very good features, and not the savage countenance 
one might expect. The men have their hair tied up, but the women’s hangs 
down, nor do they wear feathers in it like the men, but adorn it with leaves. 
They seem to be proud of their sex, and expect you should give them 
everything they desire because they are women, but they take great care of 
themselves, and are exceedingly modest, in this respect being very different 
from the women we saw in the islands. 
* The men have a particular taste for carving; their boats, paddles, 
boards to put on their houses, tops of walking-sticks, and even their boats’ 
valens are carved in a variety of flourishes turnings and windings that are 
unbroken ; but their favourite figure seems to be a volute or spiral which 
they vary many ways—single, double, and triple—and with as much truth 
as if done from mathematical draughts; yet the only instrument we have 
seen are a chisel and an axe, both made of stone. Their fancy, indeed, is 
very wild and extravagant, and I have seen no imitations of nature in any 
of their performances, unless the head and the heart-shaped tongue hanging 
out of the mouth of it may be called natural. 
* We saw many beautiful parrots and birds of various kinds—one in 
partieular that had a note very much like our blackbird, but we found no 
ground fowl or domestic poultry. Of quadrupeds we saw no other than 
dogs, which were like those on the island of Otaheite, and of them but a 
few. * * * From the view which we had of the coast, and the obser- 
vations made, we might judge that the country is well-situated, naturally 
fertile, and capable of great improvement by cultivation, especially as the 
climate is distinguishably mild and favourable. "We had clear and fair 
weather all the time we were on the coast, excepting one day, and though 
the weather was hot, yet it seemed, by what we observed, that a sea-breeze 
constantly set in about eleven o'clock in the forenoon which moderated it. 
** On the 30th, having obtained a sufficient quantity of wood and water, 
we left the bay, and, sailing along the coast, about noon came up with a 
point of land before an island; this point we called East Cape, and the 
island East Island, from which the land altered its direction and tended 
away to the W. We saw several villages which seemed to have been fenced 
in by art, and some parcels of ground cultivated. We passed a bay which 
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