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their own prayers, and performing many ceremonies of their 



RELIGION. 



rfliip : for when a young man at Tahe 



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fail with us to Huaheine, before he eat his fupper, he repeated a 



kind of prayer, and took a very 

 was intended for his fupper. 



piece of the iilh, which 



and laid 



on the table 



as 



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n oflFerino- for.the Eatoba. The natives "told me when I enquired 

 about their mode of worlliip, that the priefl fometimes delivered 

 his prayer fo low that nobody could hear any thii 



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yet he 



was 



heard by the Eatoba, who is then near the liiarai, and fpeaks to the 



priefl again, and though there were ever fo 



people preient 



theycouldnot hearafmgle word fpoken by the Eatooas, whereas 

 the priefl (Tahoiiwa) underflood it all. 



The inferior divinities 



according to our former obfervation are revered -only by a hiiTing 



Ibund. 



A native of the Society-iiles no fooner comes 



fight 



f 



marai, than he flrips his garment from his flioulders, and pays it 



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the fame refped; 



which he fliews his prince, by uncovering 



his 



flioulders : which mofl undoubtedly proves that a very peculiar 

 -reverence is fhewn to the place, and which they would' not do. 



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^nlefs they were perfuaded, that a being ofafuperior rank lived 

 there, and well deferved fuch a mark of reverence. ^ . 



Not contented with prayers and mere profefTions, delivered by 

 words, the natives of thefe iflands endeavour likewife 



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