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being 

 Royal 



them 



that even, the PrincelTes. of the hlbo^ 



derogatory 



their rank to exhibit their ikill 



in dancing before a crouded audience of their father s or brother's 

 fubjeds; and the adtors were fome of the Haas, or attendants upon 

 the King. We hardly met with a fingle perfon, who was not able 

 tb fing a tune y and on all oecafions the women fubfervient to the 

 pleafures of our failors, were ^n^ixig their own extempore compo- 

 fltions. We had no opportunity of forming a judgment- of the 

 dances or drama of the other iflands in. the. South Sea> as our {lay 



among them 



ihort, and the knowledge of their refpedtive 



languages too imperfed. 



. I cannot leave this fub]e<fb without mjentioning that the New 

 Zeelanders ufed likewife to exhibit to us their war-fong, which 



was begun by one of them,, and accom 



motions, and gellures> and 



with violent ftampings, 

 the brandifhing of their battle-axes j, 

 at the end o£ every ftanza of the long, was a kind of burden, which 

 was fun^ by the whole band of warriors in chorus,, with the loudeft 

 and moil dreadful vociferations 5 which gradually worked them up 

 1l>aki«d of phrenzy, the oftly ftate of mind in which they fight 

 Iii O-Taha I faw a funeral ceremony performed,, wherein dancing, 

 ivas exhibited by three fmall girls,, with occafionaL interludes by 



Between the ad:s the friends and relations (Hear-biddee) 



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three men 



ppeared dreffed, in. pairs 



the 



of 



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but came. 



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