The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. V. Being the First of the Third Voyage

by James Cook

Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, tom. xv. p. 312, 313.

[185]. The same sort of evening concert is performed round the house of the chief, or Tamole, at the Caroline Islands. “Le Tamole ne s’endort qu’au bruit d’un concert de musique que forme une troupe de jeunes gens, qui s’assemblent le soir, autour de sa maison, et qui chantent, à leur manière, certaines poësies.” Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, tom. xv. p. 314.

[186]. See Vol. I. p. 209.

[187]. Mr. Anderson’s description of the entertainments of this day being much fuller than Captain Cook’s, it has been adopted, as on a former occasion.

[188]. The burying-places of the chiefs at the Caroline Islands, are also inclosed in this manner. See Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, tom. xv. p. 309.

[189]. The following account of kava, to the end of this paragraph, is inserted from Mr. Anderson’s journal.

[190]. From the 4th to the 7th of October.

[191]. See his Characteres Generum Plantarum. Lond. 1776.

[192]. Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, Tab. cii.

[193]. This is the fiatooka mentioned above by Mr. Anderson, p. 379.