THE PACIFIC OCEAN* 
CHAP. II. 
Interview with Otoo , King of the IJland.—Imprudent Con¬ 
duit of Omai.—Employments on Shore.—European Animals 
landed.—Particulars about a Native who had vifited Lima . 
—About Oedidee.—A Revolt in Eimeo.'—War with that 
IJland determined upon , in a Council of Chiefs.—A human 
Sacrifice on that Account.—A particular ' Relation of the 
Ceremonies at the great Morai , where the Sacrifice was 
offered.—Other barbarous Cuffoms of this People. 
A BOUT nine o’clock in the morning, Otoo, the King , 777 . 
of the whole illand, attended by a great number of t AugulL „ 
canoes full of people, came from Oparre, his place of re- Sunday 24. 
lidence, and having landed on Matavai Point, fent a mef- 
fage on board, expreffing his delire to fee me there. Ac¬ 
cordingly I landed, accompanied by Omai, and fome of 
the officers. We found a prodigious number of people af- 
fembled on this occalion, and in the midft of them was the 
king, attended by his father, his two brothers, and three 
lifters. I went up, firft, and faluted him, being followed by 
Omai, who kneeled and embraced his legs. He had pre¬ 
pared himfelf for this ceremony, by dreffing himfelf in his 
very heft fuit of clothes, and behaved with a great deal of 
refpecft and modefty; Neverthelefs, very little notice was 
taken of him. Perhaps, envy had fome ffiare in producing 
this 
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