CHAPTER III. 



CONTENTS. 



DEPARTURE OF THE VINCENNES FROM TAHITI — BELLINGHAUSEN'S ISLAND — ROSE 

 ISLAND — MANUA — ITS DESCRIPTION — THREATENED WAR — ITS CAUSE— CANOES OF 

 MANUA — APPEARANCE AND CONDUCT OF THE NATIVES — VILLAGE — DRESS OF THE 

 NATIVES— PRODUCTIONS OF MANUA — OLOOSINGA— ITS DESCRIPTION — HOUSE OF THE 

 KING— HIS ENTERTAINMENT — RETURN TO THE SHIP— CORAL REEF OF OLOOSINGA— 

 OFOO — TEMPERATURE DURING THE PASSAGE — PLAN OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE 

 SQUADRON— APPEARANCE OF TUTUILA— HARBOUR OF PAGO-PAGO— ANCHORAGE— TOA — 

 OBSERVATORY— GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF TUTUILA— APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER 

 OF ITS INHABITANTS— MASSACRE OF M. DE LANGLE— VILLAGE OF PAGO-PAGO— GOVERN- 

 MENT— WAR-MATS— VISIT TO TOA — HIS FEAST— PRICE OF PROVISIONS — WAR-SONG— 

 BATHING — MODE OF LIVING— EMPLOYMENTS AND AMUSEMENTS— MR. MURRAY, THE 

 MISSIONARY — CUSTOMS OF THE NATIVES— PUBLIC WORSHIP— MISSIONARY — JUNCTION 

 OF THE PEACOCK AND FLYING-FISH — SURVEYS — CLIMATE— VISIT TO HEATHEN VIL- 

 LAGES—SAVAGE FEAST— TEMPERATURE AT THE TOP OF MATAFOA— SUPPOSED MURDER 

 — REMARKABLE PHENOMENA OF THE TIDES. 



