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A VOYAGE TO 
l 777’ 
Augult. 
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Friday 22. 
Saturday 23. 
of thofe little houfes, or awnings, belonging to their large 
canoes. Perhaps, it had originally been employed for that 
purpofe. It was covered, and hung round, with cloth and 
mats of different colours, fo as to have a pretty effedt. 
There was one piece of fcarlet broad-cloth, four or five 
yards in length, confpicuous amongft the other ornaments; 
which, no doubt, had been a prefent from the Spaniards. 
This cloth, and a few taffels of feathers, which our Gen¬ 
tlemen fuppofed to be filk, fuggefted to them the idea of a 
chapel; for whatever elfe was wanting to create a refem- 
blance, their imagination fupplied; and if they had not 
previoufly known, that there had been Spaniards lately 
here, they could not poflibly have made the miftake. Small 
offerings of fruit and roots feemed to be daily made at this 
fhrine, as fome pieces were quite frefh. Thefe were depo- 
fited upon a whatta , or altar, which flood without the pal- 
lifades ; and within thefe we were not permitted to enter. 
Two men conflantly attended, night and day, not only to 
watch over the place, but alfo to drefs and undrefs the 
toopapaoo. For when I firif went to furvey it, the cloth and 
its appendages were all rolled up; but, at my requeft, the 
two attendants hung it out in order, firft dreffing them- 
felves in clean white robes. They told me, that the Chief 
had been dead twenty months. 
Having taken in a frefh fupply of water, and finifhed all 
our other neceffary operations, on the 22d, I brought off 
the cattle and fheep, which had been put on fhore here to 
graze; and made ready for fea. 
In the morning of the 23d, while the fliips were unmoor¬ 
ing, Omai and I landed, to take leave of the young Chief. 
While we were with him, one of thofe enthufiaftic perfons, 
whom they call Eat00as , from a perfuafion that they are 
poffeffed 
