The Areois. 
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the kind or situation of the tatooing on their 
bodies. The first or highest class was called 
“Avae parai,” painted leg; the leg being com¬ 
pletely blackened from the foot to the knee. 
The second class was called “Otiore,” both 
arms being marked from the fingers to the 
shoulders. The third class was “ Harotea,” 
both sides of the body, from the armpits 
downwards, being tattooed. The fourth class, 
called “ Hua,” had only two or three small 
figures, impressed with the same material, on 
each shoulder. The fifth class, called “ Atoro,” 
had one small stripe tattooed on the left side. 
Every individual in the sixth class, called 
“ Ohemara,” had a small circle marked round 
each ankle. The seventh class, or “ Poo,” 
which included all who were in the noviciate, 
was usually denominated the “Poo faarearea,” 
or pleasure-making class, and by them the most 
laborious part of the pantomimes, dances, etc., 
was performed ; the principal or higher order 
of Areois, though plastered over with charcoal, 
were generally careful not to exhaust themselves 
by physical effort for the amusement of others. 
Like the society of the Uritoi (the Uritoy 
of the Jesuit Canova), the Areoi classes were 
