of their Chiefs feparate from their bodies, and go to a place 
called Boo loo too ; the Chief, or god, of which, is Gooleho . 
This Gooleho feems to be a perfonification of death; for they 
ufed to fay to us, 44 You, and the men of Feejee (by this 
44 junction meaning to pay a compliment, exprefhve of 
44 their confeffion of our fuperiority over themfelves), are 
44 alfo fubjedt to the power and dominion of Gooleho His 
country, the general receptacle of the dead, according to 
their mythology, was never feen by any perfon; and yet, 
it feems, they know that it lies to the Weftward of Feejee; 
and that they who are once tranfported thither, live for 
ever; or, to ufe their own expreflion, are not fubjedt to 
death again; but fealf upon all the favourite produdts of 
their own country, with which this everlafting abode is 
fuppofed to abound. As to the fouls of the lower fort of 
people, they undergo a fort of tranfmigration; or, as they 
fay, are eat by a bird called loata , which walks upon their 
graves for that purpofe. 
I think I may venture to affert, that they do not worfhip 
any thing that is the work of their own hands, or any vi¬ 
able part of the creation. They do not make offerings of 
hogs, dogs, and fruit, as at Otaheite, unlefs it be emblem¬ 
atically; for their morals were perfedtly free from every 
thing of the kind. But that they offer real human facri- 
fices, is, with me, beyond a doubt. Their morals , or fiatookas 
(for they are called by both names, but moftly by the 
latter), are, as at Otaheite, and many other parts of the 
world, burying-grounds, and places of worfhip; though 
fome of them feemed to be only appropriated to the firff 
purpofe; but thefe were fmall, and, in every other refpedt, 
inferior to the others. 
Of the nature of their government, we know no more than 
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