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(helL of about and inch and a lialf diameter. 



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pofed in rows ; the ahou-alboo is put over two other teepootasy the 

 towermoft of which is white or red in the wideft, the next is browit 

 and narrower, and the akou-aiboo is the naroweft of all: thefe 

 ahous they gather by a belt of two kinds of cloth, twilled together 



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into a rope,, and called naoii-naou : 

 back of the chief mourner a kind 



all this they fpread 



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of mantle, made of netting of 

 firings, and covered on the outfide with gloify pigeons feathers > 

 this cloak they call ahoii-robpe ; in one hand the mafked man, per- 

 forming the ceremony, * wears two ftrong mother of pearl oyfter* 

 iliells, which he knocks againft one another, and caufes a loud 



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noife, arrnounciiig his approach ,- thefe clappers are called tette > 

 \}[i^ payho is held in the other hand, and confiils of a flick, inta 

 which a row of fharp fliarlc's teeth is fiflened, with which they cut 

 the people,, who may happen to be dilatory in retiring at the ap- 



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i folemn procefTion.* AM the parts of this one drefs 

 are the mofl ingenious and moil compound work they have on their 

 ifles, and mull of confequence require a peculiar handinel^ and 

 fkill. in executing with fo much neatnefs and elegance^ 



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•*■ In Ilawkefvvorth's CompJIatlon, vol; ii. p. 234, plate No. 5,, amfm Captam Cook^s 

 Voyage, toI. i. p. 185, plate 44, is a reprefentation of a man drelTed in the leva, or mourn- 

 ing drefs : but it mufi: be obferved, that the tropic bird's feathers go not bcyoiid the hi-oopo^ 

 and are never fixed to the/.-i-Zcv^, as has been iinpropcrly reprefeuted in the plate, drawn by 



Mr. Vr.. Hodges,. 



