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mid, but, in the language of the illand, is named hena - i 77 $. 
nanoo ; which appeared evidently to he an exadt model of t J anuar r- 
the larger one, obferved by us from the fhips. It was 
about four feet lquare at the bafe, and about twenty feet 
high. The four fides were compoled of fmall poles inter¬ 
woven with twigs and branches, thus forming an indiffe¬ 
rent wicker-work, hollow or open within, from bottom to 
top. It feemed to be rather in a ruinous ftate; but there 
were fufficient remaining marks, to fliew, that it had ori¬ 
ginally been covered with a thin, light, grey cloth; which 
thefe people, it fhould feem, confecrate to religious pur- 
pofes ; as we could fee a good deal of it hanging in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the moral ; and fome of it had been forced 
upon me when I firft landed. On each fide of the pyra¬ 
mid were long pieces of wicker-work, called hereanee , in 
the fame ruinous condition; with two flender poles, in¬ 
clining to each other, at one corner, where fome plantains 
were laid upon a board, fixed at the height of five or fix 
feet. This they called herairemy ; and informed us, that 
the fruit was an offering to their God, which makes it 
agree exactly with the wbatta of Otaheite. Before the 
benananoo were a few pieces of wood, carved into fome- 
thing like human figures, which, with a ftone near two 
feet high, covered with pieces of cloth, called bobo-, and 
confecrated to Tongarooa , who is the God of thefe people, 
ftill more and more reminded us of what we ufed to meet 
with in the morals of the illands we had lately left *. Ad¬ 
joining to thefe, on the outfide of the moral , was a fmall 
fhed, no bigger than a dog-kennel, which they called ha- 
* See the defcription of the moral, in Otaheite, where the human facrifice was offered., 
at which Captain Cook was prefent. 
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