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A VOYAGE TO 
1777. 
September. 
performed on meeting her father. Towha had brought a 
large war canoe from Eimeo. I inquired if he had killed 
the people belonging to her; and was told, that there was 
no man in her when fhe was captured. 
We left Tettaha, about ten or eleven o’clock, and landed, 
clofe to the moral of Attahooroo, a little after noon. There 
lay three canoes, hauled upon the beach, oppolite the moral , 
with three hogs expofed in each : their Iheds, or awnings, 
had fomething under them which I could not difcern. We 
expecfted the folemnity to be performed the fame afternoon; 
but as neither Towha nor Potatou had joined us, nothing 
was done. 
A Chief from Eimeo came with a fmall pig, and a plan¬ 
tain-tree, and placed them at Otoo’s feet. They talked fome 
time together; and the Eimeo Chief often repeating the 
words, Warry , warty, “ falfe,” I fuppofed that Otoo was 
relating to him what he had heard, and that the other de¬ 
nied it. 
The next day (Wednefday) Towha, and Potatou, with 
about eight large canoes, arrived, and landed near the moral . 
Many plantain-trees w'ere brought, on the part of different 
Chiefs, to Gtoo. Towha did not ftir from his canoe. The 
ceremony began by the principal pried: bringing out the 
maro , wrapped up; and a bundle, fhaped like a large fugar- 
loaf. Thefe were placed at the head of what I underftood 
to be a grave. Then three priefts came, and fat down op- 
pofite, that is, at the other end of the grave; bringing with 
them a plantain-teee, the branch of fome other tree, and 
the flieath of the flower of the cocoa-nut tree. 
The priefts, with thefe things in their hands, feparately 
repeated fentences; and, at intervals, two, and fometimes 
all three fung a melancholy ditty, little attended to by the 
1 people. 
