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fome of their attendants dug a hole about two feet deep, 1777. 
into which they threw the unhappy victim, and covered 1 ^ ept ^ mher ; 
it over with earth and ftones. While they were putting 
him into the grave, a boy fqueaked aloud, and Omai faid 
to me, that it was the Eat00a. During this time, a fire 
having been made, the dog, before mentioned, was pro¬ 
duced, and killed, by twilling his neck, and fuffocating 
him. The hair was finged off, and the entrails taken out, 
and thrown into the fire, where they were left to confume. 
But the heart, liver, and kidneys were only roafted, by 
being laid on hot ftones for a few minutes ; and the body 
of the dog, after being befmeared with the blood, wdiich 
had been colledled into a cocoa-nut fhell, and dried over 
the fire, was, with the liver, &c. carried and laid down be¬ 
fore the priefts, who fat praying, round the grave. They 
continued their ejaculations over the dog, for fome time, 
while two men, at intervals, beat on two drums very loud ; 
and a boy fcreamed, as before, in a loud, fbrill voice, three 
different times. This, as we were told, was to invite the 
Eatooa to feaft on the banquet that they had prepared for 
him. As foon as the priefts had ended their prayers, the 
carcafe of the dog, with what belonged to it, were laid on 
a whatta , or fcaffold, about fix feet high, that flood clofe 
by, on which lay the remains of two other dogs, and of 
two pigs, which had lately been facrificed, and, at this time, 
emitted an intolerable flench. This kept us at a greater 
diflance, than would, otherwife, have been required of us. 
For, after the vidtim was removed from the fea-ftde toward 
the moral , we were allowed to approach as near as we 
pleafed. Indeed, after that, neither ferioufnefs nor atten¬ 
tion were much obferved by the fpedlators. When the 
dog was put upon the whatta , the priefts and attendants 
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