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the fyllables at the end of each verfe form rhymes, which 



e effea of accident, though- all the other 



be thought to be th 

 couplets in Hawkefworth, together with thefe two nDw before 

 us, are without rhyme. From whence it feems to follow, that their 

 poetry admits both of rhymes and of blank verfe. 



Another fuch couplet was frequently fung on board the Refo- 



lution, in 1774. 



ee te pahee| no 



T55te 



Awajh 



Te nie|a to Teo|ree hcrdia - e. 



We can by no means vouch that this divifion of the metres and 

 the quantities are perfedly true, but hearing the words, or reading 

 thofe in Hawkefworth, we fuppofed that the quantit 



were 



fuch 



we have marked over the words. In their prayers, and likewife 



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in their dramas and on other folemn occaii 

 different from what we ufed to hear in thei 



IS, * the languag 



common converfat 



and 



X 



^ When we were in New-Zeeland and tile tAiw in Ijurfcy Bay was willing to Cbtne on board 

 our {hip, he pronounced a carmen or fpeech in a very cadenccd and folemn manner, which 

 lafted about two minutes^ holding at the fame time a gre€a branch in his hand, as foori as he had 

 finifhcd this ceremonious formule, he ftruck the fliip with the branch juft as he had done befori" 

 he began the ceremony, and then threw the branch into the fhip. In Queen Charlotte's 

 Sound, a party of Indians came on board our fhtp, whom we had not feen before, and one 

 of them held a green flag in his hand, while another perfcn delivered a long, folemn, and 



cadenced fpeeeh. The ceremony and folemn prayer of fupaya on the firfl landing at 



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