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January. 
reepahoo ; and before it was a grave, where, as we were told >T 
the remains of a woman lay. 
On the farther fade of the area of the moral, flood a houfe 
or fhed, about forty feet long, ten broad in the middle, each 
end being narrower, and about ten feet high. This, which, 
though much longer, was lower than their common dwell¬ 
ing-places, we were informed, was called hemanaa . The 
entrance into it was at the middle of the fide, which was 
in the moral. On the farther fide of this houfe, oppofite the 
entrance, flood two wooden images, cut out of one piece, 
with pedeflals, in all about three feet high; neither very 
indifferently defigned nor executed. Thefe were faid to be 
Eatooa no Veheina , or reprefentations of goddeffes. On the 
head of one of them was a carved helmet, not unlike thofe 
worn by the ancient warriors; and on that of the other, a 
cylindrical cap, refembling the head-drefs at Otaheite, called 
tomou ; and both of them had pieces of cloth, tied about the 
loins, and hanging a confiderable way down. At the fide 
of each, waS alfo a piece of carved wood, with bits of the 
cloth hung on them, in the fame manner: and between, 
or before, the pedeflals, lay a quantity of fern, in a heap. 
It was obvious, that this had been depofited there, piece by 
piece, and at different times; for there was of it, in all 
Hates, from what was quite decayed, to what was Hill frefh 
and green. 
In the middle of the houfe, and before the two images, 
was an oblong fpace, inclofedby a low edging of Hone, and 
covered with flireds of the cloth fo often mentioned. This, 
on inquiry, we found, was the grave of feven Chiefs, whofe 
names were enumerated, and the place was called Heneene . 
We had met already with fo many Hriking in nances of re- 
femblance. 
