S68 



rvELIGION 



/ 



H E 



ARK 



ON 



THE 



At the Marquefas we 



difcovered no figns of their burying 



places, as none of us penetrated to the top of the h 



wh 



we 



d 



ed from on hoard the fliips fome long Aakes {landing 



upright, nearly in the fame manner as the Teehees at Tahe 

 which by feveral were confidered as fortifications. 



and 



Mendana faw 



in the year 1595, in the fame illand, not far from the town, fome- 



thin"- which he calls ** an oracle, furrounded with palifades, 



<C 



Ci 



iC 



4C 



with the entrance to the Wefl, and a houfe almofl in the middle 

 with the door to the North, in which were fome figures of wood 

 ill wrought, and there were offered fome eatables, among which 

 was a hog ; this the Spanifli foldiers took down, and wanting 



away other thing 



the Indians hindered them 



** by figns, that they fliould not touch them, intimating that they 

 '* refpeded that houfe and figures." * 



From this account it 



to me evident, that the place they faw was a plac 



of 



appears 



woriliip arid burying, or in a word a rnarai. 



intimate, that they had the fame manner of worfhipping, 



fame offerings of hogs and other eatables, together with the 



It likewife feems to 



the 



wooden Teehees as at Taheitee, and that the whole of their religion 

 and notions of divinity are nearly the fame as in the Society-iiles. 



On MallicoUo we made 



'bf( 



ther on the rel 



worfhip of it$ inhabitants, as we {laid only one day on 



the iiland. 



I have 



* Dalrymple's Collecllon of Voyages, vol* u p. 68, 



