THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
buried in one hole, at the foot of the pile. This, Omai, who 
was prefent, told me, was done the day after the battle, 
with much pomp and ceremony, and in the midft of a great 
concourfe of people, as a thanklgiving offering to the Ea- 
tooa , for the vi6tory they had obtained; while the van- 
quifhed had taken refuge in the mountains. There they 
remained a week, or ten days, till the fury of the vi£lors 
was over, and a treaty fet on foot, by which it was agreed, 
that Otoo fhould be declared king of the whole ill and; and 
the folemnity of inverting him with the maro , was per¬ 
formed at the fame moral , with great pomp, in the prefence, 
of all the principal men of the country. 
45 
1777 - 
September. 
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