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1777. the trees to look at us, when we were hid by the furround- 
April. • 1 J 
» ( . mg crowd. 
About a third part of the men were armed with clubs and 
fpears; and, probably, thele were only the perfons who 
had come from a diftance, as many of them had fmall baf- 
kets, mats, and other things, fattened to the ends of their 
weapons. The clubs were generally about ttx feet long, 
made of a hard black wood, lance-fhaped at the end, but 
much broader, with the edge nicely fcolloped, and the 
whole neatly polilhed. Others of them were narrower at 
the point, much fhorter, and plain; and lome were even 
fo fmall, as to be ufed with one hand. The fpears were 
made of the lame wood, limply pointed ; and, in general, 
above twelve feet long; though fome were fo ihort, that 
they feemed intended to be thrown as darts. 
The place where we were all the day, was under the 
fhade of various trees; in which they preferved their ca¬ 
noes from the fun. About eight or ten of them were here, 
all double ones; that is, two fingle ones fattened toge¬ 
ther (as is ufual, throughout the whole extent of the Pacific 
Ocean), by ratters lathed acrofs. They were about twenty 
feet long, about four feet deep, and the tides rounded with 
a plank raifed upon them, which was fattened ftrongly by 
means of withes. Two of thele canoes were moft curioufly 
ftained, or painted, all over with black, in numberlefs fmall 
figures; as fquares, triangles. Sec. and excelled, by far, 
any thing of that kind I had ever feen at any other illand 
in this ocean. Our friends here, indeed, feemed to have ex¬ 
erted more fk.il! in doing this, than in puncturing their own 
bodies. The paddles were about four feet long, nearly ellip¬ 
tical ; but broader at the upper end than the middle. Near 
the fame place was. a hut or Ihed, about thirty feet long, 
and 
