in planting every piece of ground to the greatest advantage, as well as in the neatness and regularity of all their works, demanded our admiration, whilst it gave us room to suppose, that they enjoyed a considerable degree of happiness.  One of the lanes between the inclosures, led us to a little grove, which we admired for its irregularity.  An immense casuarina tree far out-topped the rest, and its branches were loaded with a vast number of blackish creatures, which we took for crows at a distance, but which proved to be bats when we came nearer.  They clung to the twigs by the hooked claws, which are at the extremity of their webbed fingers and toes; sometimes they hung with the head downwards, and sometimes the reverse.  We shot at them, and brought down six or eight at once, besides wounding several others which held foot on the tree.  They were of the kind which is commonly called the vampyre, and measured from three to four feet between the expanded wings.  A great number of them were disturbed at our firing, and flew from the tree very heavily, uttering a shrill piping note; some likewise arrived from remote parts at intervals to the tree, but the greatest number remained in their position, and probably go out to feed only by night.  As they live chiefly upon fruit, it is likely that they commit great depredations in the orchards of the natives, some of whom being present when we fired, seemed very well pleased with the death of their enemies.”  “We had already observed at Otaheite, at the Society Islands, and even at Ea- oonhe, that wherever we met with a casuarina, a burying-place was at hand.  Therefore, at sight of this venerable tree, which was hung with ill-omened creatures, we immediately conjectured that it would lead us to a cemetery or place of worship, and the event shewed that we were not mistaken.  We found a beautiful green lawn, inclosed on all sides by shady bushes and trees, amongst which casuarinas, pandangs, and wild sago-palms, appeared with their various tints of green.  A row of Barringtonians, as big as the loftiest oaks, formed one side of it, and strewed it with their large blushing flowers.  At the upper end of it, there was a rising two or three feet high, set out with coral- stones cut square.  The area above was covered with a green sod, like the rest of the lawn.  Two steps, likewise of coral rock, led up to this part, in the midst of which a house was situated, exactly like that which we saw at Ea-oonhe,” &c.—­G.F.

[3] “We continued our walk through the plantations, and met with very few inhabitants, they being almost all gone towards the trading-place.  Those we saw passed by us, or continued their occupations without stopping on our account.  Neither curiosity nor distrust and jealousy excited them to prohibit our farther progress; on the contrary, they always spoke in a kind tone to us, which sufficiently characterized their disposition.  We looked into many of the houses and found them empty,