A VOYAGE TO 
' 779 - 
January. 
buffered himfelf to be directed by Koah throughout the 
whole of this ceremony. 
We were now led back into the other divifion of the 
Moral , where there was a fpace, ten or twelve feet fquare, 
funk about three feet below the level of the area. Into this 
we defcended, and Captain Cook was feated between two 
wooden idols, Koah fupporting one of his arms, whilft I 
was defired to fupport the other. At this time, arrived a 
lecond proceflion of natives, carrying a baked hog, and a 
pudding, fome bread-fruit, cocoa-nuts, and other vegeta¬ 
bles. When they approached us, Kaireekeea put himfelf 
at their head, and prefenting the pig to Captain Cook in 
the ufual manner, began the fame kind of chant as be¬ 
fore, his companions making regular refponfes. We ob- 
ferved, that after every refponfe, their parts became gradu- 
' ally fhorter, till, toward the clofe, Kaireekeea’s confifted of 
only two or three words, which the reft anfwered by the 
word Orono. 
When this offering was concluded, which lafted a quarter 
of an hour, the natives fat down fronting us, and began 
to cut up the baked hog, to peel the vegetables, and break 
the cocoa-nuts; whilft others employed themfelves in brew¬ 
ing the ava ; which is done by chewing it, in the fame 
manner as at the Friendly Illands. Kaireekeea then took 
part of the kernel of a cocoa-nut, which he chewed, and 
wrapping it in a piece of cloth, rubbed with it the Captain’s 
face, head, hands, arms, and fhoulders. The ava was 
then handed round, and after we had tailed it, Koah and 
Pareea began to pull the flefh of the hog in pieces, and to 
put it into our mouths. I had no great objection to being 
fed by Pareea, who was very cleanly in his perfon; but 
Captain Cook, who was ferved by Koah, recollecting the 
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