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porary maraes erected in the canoes, a large num¬ 
ber of the finest hogs they could procure were 
killed, and baked in the temple on shore, the 
heads cut off, and placed on a small altar in the 
canoe, before the symbol of the idols’ presence. 
The remaining part of the body was eaten by the 
priests, and those who feasted on the sacrifices. 
Whether they fought by sea or by land, as their 
principal engagements w r ere near the shore, a fleet 
usually accompanied the army, and on board the 
canoes the principal idols were generally kept. 
The arrangements being now completed, with the 
emblems of their gods, and the offerings they made, 
they speedily set out for the combat, confident of 
victory. 
Nuu and papaupea were the terms usually em¬ 
ployed to designate an army, though it is probable 
the former was applied principally to an army, 
or fleet, filled with fighting men, and the latter to 
an army on shore, together with the multitude that 
followed for the purposes of plunder, &c. Their armies 
must formerly have been large: when Captain 
Cook was there in 1774, he supposed the fleet to 
consist of not fewer than 1700 canoes, each carry¬ 
ing forty men; making altogether 6000 fighting 
men. I think, however, there must have been 
some mistake in his calculation. In the last war 
but one, in which the people of Huahine were 
engaged with those of Raiatea, at the battle of 
Hooroto, in the latter island, according to the 
testimony of Mahine, the present king of Huahine, 
who was there, and whose father was the general 
of the forces, the fleet consisted of ninety ships, or 
war-canoes, each about one hundred feet long, 
filled with men, who, besides their ordinary arms, 
possessed the two guns left with Mai by Captain 
