Maamatiihahs - - 2000 



Typees - - - - 3500 



Showneus - - - 3000 



Hatticahs - - - 2500 



Wooheahos - - - 2500 



Tatuahs - - -■ - 200 



Making in all - - 19200 men, and in 



a climate like this, and living as the natives of this island 

 do, this number should not excite any astonishment, for 

 all are in health and vigour : old and young are active 

 and strong, and all are capable of managing a spear, club, 

 or sling. Their general mode of fighting consists in con- 

 stant skirmishing. The adverse parties assemble on the 

 brows of opposite hills, having a plain between them. 

 One or two, dressed out in all their finery, richly decorated 

 with shells, tufts of hair, ear ornaments, &;c. (Sic. advance, 

 dancing up to the opposite party, amid a shower of spears 

 and stones (which they avoid with great dexterity) and 

 daring the other to single combat. They are soon pur- 

 sued by a greater number, w^ho are in turn driven back j 

 and if in their retreat they should chance to be knocked 

 over with a stone, they are instantly despatched with 

 spears and war-clubs, and carried off in triumph. They 

 have two descriptions of spears which they use in their 

 warfare. Those by which they set the most store, are 

 about fourteen feet in length, made of a hard and black 

 wood, called toa, which receives a polish equal to ivory. 

 These are made with much neatness, and are never thrown 

 from the hand. The other kind are smaller, of a light kind 

 of wood, and are thrown with much accuracy to a great 

 distance. At certain distances from their points they are 

 pierced with holes all round, in order that they may break 

 off, with their own weight, on entering a body, and thus 

 be more difficult to extract. Their slings are made of the 

 fibres of the bark of the cocoa-nut tree, and are executed 

 with a degree of neatness and skill not to be excelled. 

 The stones thrown from them are of an oval shape, of 

 about half a pound weight, and are all highly polished, 

 by rubbing against the bark of a tree. They are worn in 

 a net suspended about the waist, and are thrown with 

 such, a degree of velocity and accuracy, as to render there 



