covers, made likewife of the gourd; others again are ex- 
a< 5 tly the fhape of a bottle with a long neck, and in thefe 
they keep their water. They have likewife a method of 
fcoring them with a heated inifrument, fo as to give them 
the appearance of being painted, in a variety of neat and 
elegant deligns. 
Amongll their arts, we mull: not forget that of making 
fait, with which we were amply fupplied, during our flay at 
thefe iflands, and which was perfedtly good of its kind. 
Their falt-pans are made of earth, lined with clay; being 
generally fix or eight feet fquare, and about eight inches 
deep. They are raifed upon a bank of hones near the high 
water mark, from whence the fait water is conduced to the 
foot of them, in fmall trenches, out of which they are fill¬ 
ed, and the fun quickly performs the necefiary procefs of 
evaporation. The fait we procured at Atooi and Oneeheow, 
on our firh vifit, was of a brown and dirty fort; but that 
which we afterward got in Karakakooa Bay, was white, and 
of a moh excellent quality, and in great abundance. Be- 
fides the quantity we ufed in faking pork, we filled all our 
empty calks, amounting to fixteen puncheons, in the Refo- 
lution only. 
Their inhruments of war are fpears; daggers, called pa - 
hooas ; clubs; and flings. The fpears are of two forts, and 
made of a hard folid wood, which has much the appear¬ 
ance of mahogany. One fort is from fix to eight feet in 
length, finely poliihed, and gradually increafing in thicknefs 
from the extremity till within about half a foot of the point, 
which tapers fuddenly, and is furniflied with four or fix 
rows of barbs. It is not improbable, that thefe might be 
ufed in the way of darts. The other fort, with which we 
faw the warriors at Owhyhee and Atooi moftly armed, are 
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