[100] Clavel, op. cit. pp. 45 sq.; Baessler, op. cit. pp. 233 sq.
[101] Krusenstern, op. cit. i. 127, 173; Langsdorff, op. cit. i. 115, 134. Other writers on the Marquesas in like manner speak of a morai simply as a place of burial. See Porter, op. cit. ii. 114 ("the gods at the burying-place, or morai, for so it is called by them"); Radiguet, op. cit. p. 52 ("un morai (sépulchre) en ruine"); Melville, Typee, p. 168 ("the 'morais' or burying-grounds"). So, too, the term was understood by the French navigator, J. Dumont d'Urville. See his Voyage au Pole Sud, Histoire du Voyage, iv. (Paris, 1842), pp. 27, 33.
[102] Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, op. cit. p. 253.
[103] Langsdorff, op. cit. i. 115. According to Krusenstern (op. cit. i. 127), the morais in general "lie a good way inland upon hills."
[104] F. D. Bennett, Narrative of a Whaling Voyage, i. 329.
[105] Langsdorff, op. cit. i. 115.
[106] Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, op. cit. p. 253.
[107] Radiguet, op. cit. p. 92. One of these stones was said to have been erected by the French navigator, Captain Marchand, and to have formerly borne an inscription recording his taking possession of the island. Hence it would be unsafe to draw any conclusion from the supposed antiquity of these two tall upright stones.
[108] C. S. Stewart, op. cit. i. 260.
[109] F. D. Bennett, op. cit. i. 329.