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wild duck. The natives mentioned the names of feveral 
other birds; amongft which we knew the otoo , or blueifh 
heron; and the tor at a fort of whimbrel, which are known 
by the fame names at Otaheite; and it is probable, that 
there are a great many forts, judging by the quantity of 
fine yellow, green, and very fmall, velvet-like, black fea¬ 
thers ufed upon the cloaks, and other ornaments, worn by 
the inhabitants. 
Fifh, and other marine productions, were, to appearance, 
not various; as, belides the fmall mackerel, we only faw 
common mullets; a fort of a dead white, or chalky colour; 
a fmall, brownifh rock-fhh, fpotted with blue; a turtle, 
which was penned up in a pond ; and three or four forts of 
filh falted. The few fhelMfh, that we faw, were chiefly 
converted into ornaments, though they neither had beauty 
nor novelty to recommend them. 
The hogs, dogs, and fowls, which were the only tame or 
domeftic animals that we found here, were all of the fame 
kind that we met with at the South Pacific illands. There 
were alfo fmall lizards; and fome rats, refembling thole 
feen at every ifland at which we had, as yet, touched. 
The inhabitants are of a middling ftature, firmly made, 
with fome exceptions, neither remarkable for a beautiful 
fhape, nor for ftriking features, which rather exprefs an 
opennefs and good-nature, than a keen, intelligent difpofi- 
tion. Their vifage, efpecially amongft the women, is fome- 
times round; but others have it long; nor can we fay, that 
they are diftinguiihed, as a nation, by any general caft of 
countenance. Their colour is nearly of a nut brown ; and 
it may be difficult to make a nearer comparifon, if we take 
in all the different hues of that colour; but fome individuals 
are darker. The women have been already mentioned, as 
being 
