This day, some of our gentlemen in their walks found what they were pleased to call a Roman Catholic chapel.  Indeed, from their account, this was not to be doubted, for they described the altar, and every other constituent part of such a place of worship.  However, as they mentioned, at the same time, that two men who had the care of it, would not suffer them to go in, I thought that they might be mistaken, and had the curiosity to pay a visit to it myself.  The supposed chapel proved to be a toopapaoo, in which the remains of the late Waheiadooa lay, as it were, in state.  It was in a pretty large house, which was inclosed with a low pallisade.  The toopapaoo was uncommonly neat, and resembled one of those little houses or awnings belonging to their large canoes.  Perhaps it had originally been employed for that purpose.  It was covered and hung round with cloth and mats of different colours, so as to have a pretty effect.  There was one piece of scarlet broad-cloth, four or five yards in length, conspicuous among the other ornaments, which, no doubt, had been a present from the Spaniards.  This cloth, and a few tassels of feathers, which our gentlemen supposed to be silk, suggested to them the idea of a chapel, for, whatever else was wanting to create a resemblance, their imagination supplied; and, if they had not previously known that there had been Spaniards lately here, they could not possibly have made the mistake.  Small offerings of fruit and roots seemed to be daily made at this shrine, as some pieces were quite fresh.  These were deposited upon a whatta, or altar, which stood without the pallisades; and within these we were not permitted to enter.  Two men constantly attended night and day, not only to watch over the place, but also to dress and undress the toopapaoo.  For when I first went to survey it, the cloth and its appendages were all rolled up; but, at my request, the two attendants hung it out in order, first dressing themselves in clean white robes.  They told me that the chief had been dead twenty months.

Having taken in a fresh supply of water, and finished all our other necessary operations, on the 22d, I brought off the cattle and sheep which had been put on shore here to graze, and made ready for sea.

In the morning of the 23d, while the ships were unmooring, Omai and I landed to take leave of the young chief.  While we were with him, one of those enthusiastic persons whom they call Eatooas, from a persuasion that they are possessed with the spirit of the divinity, came and stood before us.  He had all the appearance of a man not in his right senses; and his only dress was a large quantity of plantain leaves, wrapped round his waist.  He spoke in a low squeaking voice, so as hardly to be understood, at least not by me.  But Omai said that he comprehended him perfectly, and that he was advising Waheiadooa not to go with me to Matavai; an expedition which I had never heard