[68] It is good to be drunk, it is pleasant to be drunk.
[69] Two Portuguese seamen, however, who had resided some months with them, having been left behind by a sealing vessel, and taken off by us at a subsequent period of the voyage at their own request, informed us that Maria is not the leader of religious ceremonies. Each family possesses its own household god, a small wooden image, about three inches in length, the rough imitation of a man's head and shoulders, which they consider as the representative of a superior being, attributing to it all the good or evil that happens to them.
[70] Burney, i. p. 33.
[71] Ibid. p. 135.
[72] Burney, i. 318.
[73] Ibid, i. 324.
[74] Sarmiento, p. 244.
[75] Sarmiento's Appendix, xxix.
[76] Purchas, iv. ch. 6 and 7.
[77] Burney, ii. p. 106.