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HISTORY OP THE SEA. 



MAN OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



direct Iiis course to Kamschatka, arriving there by the middle of 

 May in the ensuing year. On the 26th of November, the two 

 ships anchored at the archipelago of the Sandwich Islands and 

 discovered several new members of the group. At Owhyhee, 

 Cook found the natives more free from reserve and suspicion 

 than any other tribe he had met ; nor did they even once 

 attempt a fraud or a theft. Cook's confidence, already great, 

 was still further augmented by a singular, if not grotesque, 

 incident. 



The priests of the island resolved to deify the captain, under 

 the name of Orono. One evening, as he landed upon the beach, 

 he was received by four men, who immediately swathed him in 

 red cloth, and then conducted him to a sort of sacrificial altar, 

 where, by means of an indescribable ceremony, consisting of 

 rapid speeches, offerings of putrid hogs and sugarcanes, invo- 



