THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
the moft helplefs on land. After they had completed thefe 
two piles, they made feveral other heaps of yams and bread¬ 
fruit on each fide of the area; to which were added a turtle, 
and a large quantity of excellent hill. All this, with a piece 
of cloth, a mat, and fome red feathers, was the king’s pre- 
fent to me ; and he feemed to pique himlelf on exceeding, 
as he really did, Feenou’s liberality, which I experienced 
at Hapaee. 
About one o’clock they began the mai^ or dances ; the firft 
of which was almoft a copy of the firft that was exhibited at 
Mareewagee’s entertainment.. The fecond was conducted 
by Captain Furneaux’s Toobou, who, as we mentioned, had 
alfo danced there ; and in this, four or five women were in¬ 
troduced, who went through the feveral parts with as much 
exa&nefs as the men. Toward the end, the performers di¬ 
vided to leave room for two champions, who exercifed their 
clubs, as defcribed on a former occafion. And, in the third 
dance, which was the laffc now prefented, two more men, 
with their clubs, difplayed their dexterity. The dances 
were fucceeded by wreftling and boxing; and one man en¬ 
tered the lifts with a fort of club, made from the ftem of a 
cocoa-leaf, which is firm and heavy; but could find no an- 
tagonift to engage him at fo rough a fport. At night we 
had the bomai repeated; in which Poulaho himfelf danced, 
drefted in Englifh manufacture. But neither thefe, nor the 
dances in the day-time, were fo confiderable, nor carried 
on with fo much fpirit, as Feenou’s, or Mareewagee’s; and, 
therefore, there is lefs occafion to be more particular in our 
defcription of them. 
In order to be prefent the whole time, I dined afhore. 
The king fat down with us ; but he neither eat nor drank. 
I found that this was owing to the prefence of a female, 
Rr 2 whom. 
307 
1777. 
June. 
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