THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
tude between a fheep or goat, and any winged animal. 
But thefe people feemed to know nothing of the exiftence 
of any other land-animals, behdes hogs, dogs, and birds. 
Our fheep and goats, they could fee, were very different 
creatures from the two firft, and therefore they inferred, 
that they muft belong to the latter clafs, in which they 
knew there is a conliderable variety of fpecies. I made a 
prefent to my new friend of what I thought might be moft 
acceptable to him ; but, on his going away, he feemed ra¬ 
ther difappointed than pleafed. I afterward underftood 
that he was very defirous of obtaining a dog, of which 
animal this ifland coidd not boaft, though its inhabitants 
knew that the race exifted in other iflands of their ocean. 
Captain Clerke had received the like prefent, with the fame 
view, from another man, who met with from him the like 
difappointment. 
The people in thefe canoes were in general of a middling 
fize, and not unlike thofe of Mangeea; though feveral 
were of a blacker caft than any we faw there. Their hair 
was tied on the crown of the head, or flowing loofe about 
the fhoulders; and though in fome it was of a frizzling 
difpolition, yet, for the moft part, that, as well as the 
ftraight fort, was long. Their features were various, and 
fome of the young men rather handfome. Like thofe of 
Mangeea, they had girdles of glazed cloth, or fine matting, 
the ends of which, being brought betwixt their thighs, co¬ 
vered the adjoining parts. Ornaments, compofed of a fort 
of broad grafs, ftained with red, and ftrung w r ith berries of 
the night-fhade, were worn about their necks. Their ears 
were bored, but not flit; and they were pundtured upon 
the legs, from the knee to the heel, which made them ap¬ 
pear as if they wore a kind of boots. They alfo relembled 
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