AUG. 1769 DANCING 123 
than any the gentlemen had before seen. Such a prelude 
made them expect much from the owners—a boat-load of 
hogs was the least they thought of, especially as they had 
plenty of Spartan money to pay for them; but, alack! 
the gentlemen who had fatigued themselves with building 
their houses chose to refresh themselves with eating 
the hogs, so that after the whole day was spent a small 
number only were procured in proportion to what were 
expected. 
Took Mr. Parkinson to the heiva that he might sketch 
the dresses. The dancing was exactly the same as I had 
seen before, except that another woman was added to the 
former two. The interludes of the men were varied; they 
gave us five or six which resembled much the drama of an 
English stage dance. Their names and relationships, as 
they are chiefly one family, are: (1) Tiarree no Horaa, a 
king or chief. (2) Whannooutooa, wife to 1. (3) Otoobooi, 
sister to 2. (4) Oras, elder brother to 2. (5) Tettuanne, 
younger brother to 2. (6) Otehammena, dancing girl. (7) 
Ouratooa, do. (8), Mattehea, father to 1. (9) Opipi, mother 
to 1. 
8th. Dr. Solander and I went along shore to gather 
plants, buy hogs, or anything else that might occur. We 
took our course towards the heiva, and at last came up with 
it. It has gradually moved from very near us till now it is 
two leagues off. Tupia tells us that it will in this manner 
move gradually round the island. Our friends received us, 
as usual, with all manner of civility, dancing, and giving us, 
after the amusement, a very good dinner, as well as offering 
us a quantity of their cloth as a present, which we should 
have accepted had we not been full-stocked with it before. 
We now understood a little more of the interludes than 
formerly. I shall describe one as well as I can. The men 
were divided into two parties, differing in the colour of their 
clothes, one brown, the other white. The chief of the browns 
gives a basket of meat to his servants that they might take 
care of it. The whites represent thieves who constantly 
attempt to steal it, dancing all the time. Several different 
