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nlus is called Te EH EE ;■ the natives told us, that was the thing religion, 

 which fees, hears, fmeMs, taftes, and feels within' us, which forms 



the thought 



d, after death, exifls feparately from the body 



but lives near the burying places, and hovers about the corpfe or 



bones, depofited there 



likewife an objed; of their reverence. 



though. addreffed only by hiffing : they informed us farther^ that 

 thefe Teehees inhabit chiefly the wooden figures> which are ere(fted 



near the marais ; and are, according [to the fex- of the perfon de- 

 ceafed, either* males or- females : they are likewife dreaded ; for 



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cording to their belief, they creep, during night, into the houfe^,. 



and eat the heart and entrails of the people fleeping therein, and thus 

 caufe their death. 



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The inhabitants of Taheitee fhew their reverence to their 

 divinities in various manners, Jirji by the appropriation of certain 

 places for religious worfhip, which they call Marai.. Thefe 

 places are commonly on points projecting into 



the fea 



or near it; 



and confift of a very large pile of ftones, generally in the fhape of 



an 



x«X«»T«»- Harmonid. ferficit potefiates operairices &* divinorum effe^ivas, ^are TBeurgkt^ cum fahc^ - 

 tljjime colunt nnmm ali^uod^ znnjocant illudfihilis i^ p^ppyf^'^h fonlffie ^ul artkulationes ^ confonm . 



non hahent, 



* The Taheiteans have no expreflions for abftra<a ideas, noughts certainly do not convey 

 a corporeal idea, and required therefore a peculiar turn in order to be exprcffed by words i 

 the Taheiteans have galled them par oh no u hhoo words, ;of the belly « , 



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