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held on the Morai, at which their Priests always preside but before I proceed to the ceremonies it is Necessary to Give some little Account of the Morai & Priests. This Morai is calld Tabbootebooa taya thus translated Sacrafice the White hog, and is the p...
Index Search Contact us Manufactures & Trafic (continued) and the Sun heightens the Collour; twice dipping and 6 or 8 days Sun is sufficient to produce the highest shade, which never fades till the Cloth is worn out. The Black is produced from the Sap of...
Index Search Contact us Birds &c. (continued) one a fine Bright shining Collour and an Innocent harmless look, the other of a Black or dirty Brown and of a most forbidding appearance, they are both harmless and are seldom more then 6 inches long Butterfly...
Index Search Contact us Buildings (continued) The Chief of Tyarrabboo keeps one of these Vessels constantly plying between Taheite and Myetoo or Myetea, Calld by us Osnaburgh Island, 27 leages S.E. of Taheite, which is Subject to Him, and in her, he sends...
Index Search Contact us Dress &c. (continued) time it requires to pass it, but can Measure any depth of water with exactness by the Fathom, Yard or Span all of which they Name alike with the addition of longer or shorter. They are for ever Changing their ...
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Index Search Contact us Air & Climate (continued) a heavy sea with them; this Season of the year is the worst that a ship could Choose to visit Taheite as the Bay of Maatavye is by no means a safe Road being entirely open to these Winds, nor is there any ...
Index Search Contact us Division, Government &c. (continued) refused to acknowledge Toonooeayeteatooa who he said was not the son of the Deity nor of o Too but of a Favourite Minion and that his Mother had only raised that Story out of Her own head that h...
Index Search Contact us Persons (continued) to trim it, a Sharks tooth being the only intrument they have for Cutting hair tho the Weomen hate to have Vermin in their heads as much as we do yet the men are not so delicate and many eat them. Their limbs in...
His Colleague, who is Generally a Tahowwa, then Compliments him by the Name of the Deity which he professes to be inspired with, and asks him such questions as he or the party Conserned wish to have Answered & he returns him answers in a low squeaking ton...
If the Man killd in War be toutched by a relation they must undergo the like but otherwise Washing is sufficient. A Child may Curse its Father, Mother, Uncle or Aunt but it would be Blasphemy for them to Curse it. The Child may not Curse its Grand Fathe...
Index Search Contact us Fish & Fisheries (continued) freed him from the Canoe kill him with their Bludgeons and get him in but are frequently forced to Steer homewards and Stop the leaks which he Occasions Their days Sport being then Over as they are some...
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