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A VOYAGE TO 
1 777- many of the fpeakers expreffed themfelves with warmth, 
poflibly there were fome recriminations and proteftations of 
their good intentions. In the midft of their fpeaking, a man 
of Attahooroo got up, with a fling fattened to his waift, and 
a large ftone placed upon his Ihoulder. After parading near 
a quarter of an hour, in the open fpace, repeating fome- 
thiiig in a flnging tone, he threw the ftone down. This 
ftone, and a plantain tree that lay at Otoo’s feet, were, after the 
fpeeches ended, carried to the moral ; and one of the priefts, 
and Otoo with him, faid fomething upon the occafton. 
On our return to Oparre, the fea breeze having fet in, we 
were obliged to land; and had a pleafant walk through al- 
moft the whole extent of Tettaha to Oparre. A tree, with 
two bundles of dried leaves fufpended upon it, marked the 
boundary of the two diftridts. The man who had per¬ 
formed the ceremony of the ftone and fling came with us. 
With him, Otoo’s father had a long converfation. He 
feemed very angry. I underftood, he was enraged at the 
part Towha had taken in the Eimeo buflnefsf’ 
From what I can judge of this folemnity, as thus de- 
fcribed by Mr. King, it had not been wholly a thankfgiving, 
as Omai told us ; but rather a confirmation of the treaty; 
or, perhaps, both. The grave, which Mr. King fpeaks of* 
feems to be the very fpot where the celebration of the rites 
began, when the human facrifice, at which I was prefent, 
was offered, and before which the victim was laid, after be¬ 
ing removed from the fea fide. It is at this part of the morale 
alfo, that they firft in veil: their kings with the maro. Omai, 
who had been prefent when Otoo was made king, defcribed 
to me the whole ceremony, when we were here ; and I find 
it to be almoft the fame, as this that Mr. King has now de¬ 
fcribed, though we underftood it to be upon a very different 
occafton. 
