FRIENDLY ISLANDS, 
much the fame as when they perform eee The bulk 
of the agi a fatisfy themfelves with e; but it does 
ether their pen are ae lafting by any 
sind of: ena: contract. e chiefs, however, haye c 
ae feveral women, one of os as it was tho 
regarded as the miftrefs of the family.. - The women in ge- 
‘neral appeared to be modeft, though there is no want of 
thofe of a different charaéter. Such, however, appeared to 
8 
Hu 
— the blood flows in eee and thruit fposre into the 
“inner part of the thigh, into their fides below the arm-pits, 
and through t ches ies into the mout = The-deceafed is 
buried after being wrapped up in mats and cloth, muc 
-after the European manner. The chiefs a the « fatookas® 
fingers when they think creat vee in pie er oF ee Ng.5 
fuperftitiouflyfuppofing that the deity will accept of the 
‘little finger.as-a fort pS facrifice efficacious enough to pro- 
ure t the recovery of their health. ey. cut it off with 
r ftone hatchets. From the 
to-fecure to themfelves icity beyond the grave s 
bond principal obje& relates to things temporal, 
they feem, nae ing to the account given a ee 
religion by Mr. erfon, to pores very pro en- 
timents about the pcenin ys and immortalit ‘of the 
foul; and he thinks himfelf warranted in .afferting, that 
= do not worfhip any sons that is Ba wi ae oa — 
n hands, or any vifible part of the 
vertelef admit a plurality of ee inate poe prefiding 
-ever: the different. elements of nature : and their 
the fae condition. of the deceafed are een ath many 
po giag They do not make any offerings of hogs, dogs, 
and fruit, as at Otaheite, aa it be emblematically ; tor 
their “ Morais” were perfeéily ehon every thing of the 
kind. But no doubt is entertained as to their offering real 
-human facrifices. - Their ‘* Morais,’? or ‘ fiatookas,’’ are, 
as at Otaheite, and many other parts of the world, burying- 
4 
heir government, as we have b 
enn ‘but not defpotic. A. fubordin 
eftablifhed among them, that refembles the feudal fyitem of 
our progenitors m, Europe ut, however independent on 
the defpotic power of ig the great men, or chiefs, 
“ma Al be, the lower ie have no property, nor 
the ood b called, he is : probably their nae patron, 
and perhaps their common anceftor here is a decorum 
obférved in the prelece of pee principal men, and. particu- 
ought, was. 
.why they are not difturbed by do 
notions of M 
thelefs a great n 
ufe 
number. Cooke 5 Second Voyage, vol. i. 
vol. 1 
larly of their king, that ‘is ‘truly admirable, Tn addreiiaw. 
the king, they fit down before him s and to {peak to the 
ing ftanding would be ‘accounted here as a mark of rude- 
fs. It does not-appear, indced, that any of the mof 
one man,.- informed with,. and dire¢ted by, t the ee 
ple. jail fovereign they expr d 
poffible token of deference and fubmiffion. 
ki o < 
according to la 
fides over. the Police would be ordered by the other ee 
men y the people at large, to put him to death A 
ieee cs liable to be controuled,. and to be punifhed 
power, cannot be called a defpotic monarch. 
ve ate the number of iflands that ena this 
little ftate, ae the diftance at which fame of them lie from 
the feat. of government, attempts. to throw of the yo oke, 
.and to. acquire independency, it fhould feem, might be. ap- 
prehended. But this, it is faid, never happens. One reafon 
meftic quarrels may be this: 
that all the pov werful chiefs, sae property th hey may 
poflefs in other iflands, refide at Tongataboo. They alfp 
fecure the dependence of the other iflands by the celerity of 
their operations ; for ied at any seas a troublefome and 
ae 
he common method of faluting one sicher’ in thefe 
iflands is 2 touchi ing or ein nofes, as is don ne in New 
mber of words are either exactly the fame, 
or fo little era that their common original may. be fa- 
tisfaGtorily traced. Several ins ndred v sade were collected 
b r. Anderfon; and, amongit thefe, are terms that ex- 
prefs sndiiers as far.as a aeeaet ae ee ton which 
they would never asa for having proceeded thus -far, 
they commonly u word which exprefles an_ indefinite 
Cooke's Thir d 
Voyage, v 
Friexpiy Societies denote affociations, chiefly among t dhe 
moft induftrious of the lower and middling clafs of tradefmen 
ve been.thought worthy of the pra» 
ction of the legiflature, to prevent frauds which had arifen 
from the aregular principles on. which many of them were 
conduéted. 
of perfons may t hemfelve y> and raif 
ong themfelves a fund for. thee aa benefit, and make 
les an s.—The rul clarng the purpofe 
for which. fuch cacti are eftablifhed, are to be ae 
to the quarter feffions, who may annul or confirm them 
which latter cafe they-are to be figned by the clerk of ee 
peace. No rule thus confirmed is to be altered but at.a 
general 
