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residence of most of his relations. He was a young man 
belonging to the governor, who had been sent with the 
canoe, and who, since leaving Honuapo, had acted as 
our guide. He walked before us as we entered the vil¬ 
lage. The old people from the houses welcomed him 
as he passed along, and numbers of the young men and 
women came out to meet him, saluted him by touching 
noses, and wept for joy at his arrival. Some took off his 
hat, and crowned him with a garland of flowers ; others 
hung round his neck wreaths of a sweet-scented plant 
resembling ivy, or necklaces composed of the nut of the 
fragrant pandanus odoratissime. When we reached the 
house where his sister lived, she ran to meet him, threw 
her arms around his neck, and having affectionately 
embraced him, walked hand in hand with him through 
the village. Multitudes of young people and children 
followed, chanting his name, the names of his parents, 
the place and circumstances of his birth, and the most 
remarkable events in the history of his family, in a 
lively song, which, he afterwards informed us, was com¬ 
posed on the occasion of his birth. The following frag¬ 
ment of the commencement, which I afterwards wrote 
down from the mouth of one of his aged relatives who 
was with us, will suffice as a specimen, as the whole is 
too long for insertion: 
FRAGMENT OF A SONG ON THE NAME OF MAUAE. 
Inoa o Mauae a Para, Name of Mauae,* (son) of Para, 
He aha matou auanei ? How shall we declare l 
O Mauae, te wahine horua nui, O Mauae , woman famous at ho - 
rua, f 
Wahine maheai pono. Woman tilling well the ground. 
Mother of the young maD.- 
-t Horua, a native game. 
