CONTENTS. 
interior Parts of the Country .—Mowee.—Tahoorowa.—- 
Morotoi.—Ranai.—Woahoo.—Atooi.—Oneeheow. 
Oreehoua.—Tahoora,— Climate .— Winds .— Currents . 
•— Tides. — Animals and Vegetables :— Agronomical Obfer- 
v at ions. IO o 
CHAP. VII. 
General Account of the Sandwich IJlands continued.—Of the 
Inhabitants.—Their Origin. — Perfons.—Pernicious Effects 
of the Ava. — Numbers.—Difpojition and Manners. — Rea- 
fons for fuppofing them not Cannibals.—Drefs and Orna¬ 
ments .— Villages and Houfes. — Food.—Occupations and 
Amufements.—Addicted to Gaming.—Their extraordinary 
'Dexterity in Swimming.—Arts and Manufactures. — Cu¬ 
rious Specimens of their Sculpture. — Kipparee , or Method of 
painting Cloth. — Mats.—Fiflnng Hooks. — Cordage .— Salt 
Pans.—Warlike Injlruments. 124 
CHAP. VIII. 
General Account of the Sandwich Iflands continued. — Govern¬ 
ment.—People divided into three Clajfes.—Power of Eree- 
taboo.—Genealogy of the Kings of Owhyhee and Mowee .— 
Power of the Chiefs.—State of the inferior Clafs. — Punifh- 
ment of Crimes. — Religion.—Society of Priejls.—The Orono. 
—Their Idols.—Songs chanted by the Chiefs , before they 
drink Ava.—Human Sacrifices.—Cuflom of knocking out 
the Fore-teeth.—Notions with regard to a future State.— 
Marriages.—Remarkable Injiance of Jealoufy.—Funeral 
Rites . 153 
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