A VOYAGE TO 
1779. In Karakakooa Bay, they call Koonooraekaiee , and faid it 
«_ was Terreeoboo’s God; and that he alfo redded amongft 
us. 
There are found an infinite variety of thefe images, both 
on the Morais, and within and without their houfes, to 
which they give different names; but it foon became ob¬ 
vious to us in how little eftimation they were held, from 
their frequent expreflions of contempt of them, and from 
their even offering them to fale for trifles. At the fame 
time, there feldom failed to be fome one particular figure 
in favour, to which, whilft this preference lafted, all their 
adoration was addreffed. This confifted in arraying it in red 
cloth; beating their drums, and finging hymns before it; 
laying bunches of red feathers, and different forts of vege¬ 
tables, at its feet; and expofing a pig, or a dog, to rot on 
the whatta that flood near it. 
In a bay to the Southward of Karakakooa, a party of our 
gentlemen were conduced to a large houfe, in which they 
found the black figure of a man, refting on his fingers and 
toes, with his head inclined backward; the limbs well form¬ 
ed and exactly proportioned, and the whole beautifully po- 
lifhed. This figure the natives called Maee ; and round it 
were placed thirteen others of rude and difforted fhapes, 
which they faid were the Eatooas of feveral deceafed Chiefs, 
whofe names they recounted. The place was full of wbattas , 
on which lay the remains of their offerings. They likewife 
give a place in their houfes to many ludicrous and fome ob- 
fcene idols, like the Priapus of the ancients. 
It hath been remarked, by former voyagers, that both 
among the Society and Friendly Iflanders, an adoration is 
paid to particular birds ; and I am led to believe, that the 
fame cuflom prevails here; and that, probably, the raven is 
, the 
