of the plantain tree, together with two or three hot stones, and placed on one side the hog.  A hot stone was put to the blood, which was tied up in the leaf, and put into the oven; as also bread-fruit and plantains.  Then the whole was covered with green leaves, on which were laid the remainder of the hot stones; over them were leaves; then any sort of rubbish they could lay their hands on; finishing the operation by well covering the whole with earth.  While the victuals were baking, a table was spread with green leaves on the floor, at one end of a large boat-house.  At the close of two hours and ten minutes, the oven was opened, and all the victuals taken out.  Those of the natives who dined with us, sat down by themselves, at one end of the table, and we at the other.  The hog was placed before us, and the fat and blood before them, on which they chiefly dined, and said it was Mamity, very good victuals; and we not only said, but thought, the same of the pork.  The hog weighed about fifty pounds.  Some parts about the ribs I thought rather overdone, but the more fleshy parts were excellent; and the skin, which by the way of our dressing can hardly be eaten, had, by this method, a taste and flavour superior to any thing I ever met with of the kind.  I have now only to add, that during the whole of the various operations, they exhibited a cleanliness well worthy of imitation.  I have been the more particular in this account, because I do not remember that any of us had seen the whole process before; nor is it well described in the narrative of my former voyage.

While dinner was preparing, I took a view of this Whenooa of Oedidee.  It was a small, but a pleasant spot; and the houses were so disposed as to form a very pretty village, which is very rarely the case at these isles, Soon after we had dined, we set out for the ship, with the other pig, and a few races of plantains, which proved to be the sum total of our great expectations.

In our return to the ship, we put ashore at a place where, in the corner of a house, we saw four wooden images, each two feet long, standing on a shelf, having a piece of cloth round their middle, and a kind of turban on their heads, in which were stuck long feathers of cocks.  A person in the house told us they were Eatua no te Toutou, gods of the servants or slaves.  I doubt if this be sufficient to conclude that they pay them divine worship, and that the servants or slaves are not allowed the same gods as men of more elevated rank; I never heard that Tupia made any such distinction, or that they worshipped any visible thing whatever.  Besides, these were the first wooden gods we had seen in any of the isles; and all the authority we had for their being such, was the bare word of perhaps a superstitious person, and whom, too, we were liable to misunderstand.  It must be allowed that the people of this isle are in general more superstitious than at Otaheite.  At the first