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A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. III. 
Conference with Fowha.—Heevas defer ibed.—Omai and Oedi- 
dee give Dinners.—Fireworks exhibited .— A remarkable 
Frefent of Cloth.— Manner of preferving the Body of a 
dead Chief.—Another human Sacrifice.—Riding on Horfe- 
back. — Otoo's Attention to fupply Provijions , and prevent 
Fhefts.—Animals given to him. — Etary , and the Deputies 
of a Chief have Audiences.—A Mock-fight of Two War Ca¬ 
noes.—Naval Strength of thefe Ifiands.—Manner of con¬ 
ducing a War . 
1777. 
September. 
Tuefday 2. 
T HE clofe of the very lingular feerie, exhibited at the 
morai, which I have faithfully deferibed in the lad: 
Chapter, leaving us no other bulinefs in Attahooroo, we 
embarked about noon, in order to return to Matavai; and, 
in our way, vilited Towha, w'ho had remained on the little 
ifland, where we met him the day before. Some converfa- 
tion paffed between Otoo arid him, on the prefent polture of 
public affairs ; and then the latter folicited me, once more, 
to join them in their war againffc Eimeo. By my politive re- 
fufal I entirely loft the good graces of this Chief. 
Before we parted, he alked us, if the folemnity, at which 
we had been prefent, anfwered our expectations; what opi¬ 
nion we had of its efficacy; and whether we performed fuch 
acts of worffiip in our own country ? During the celebra¬ 
tion of the horrid ceremony, we had preferved a profound 
filence; 
