General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued.—Of the Inhabitants.—Their Origin.—Persons.—Pernicious Effects of the Ava.—Numbers.—Disposition and Manners.—Reasons for supposing them not Cannibals.— Dress and Ornaments.—Villages and Houses.—Food.— Occupations and Amusements.—Addicted to Gaming.—Their extraordinary Dexterity in Swimming.—Arts and Manufactures.—Curious Specimens of their Sculpture.— Kipparee, or Method of painting Cloth.—Mats.—Fishing Hooks.—Cordage.—Salt Pans.—Warlike Instruments 115 CHAP. VIII. General Account of the Sandwich Islands continued.— Government.—People divided into three Classes.—Power of Eree-taboo.—Genealogy of the Kings of Owhyhee and Mowee.—Power of the Chiefs.—State of the inferior Class.—Punishment of Crimes.—Religion.—Society of Priests.—The Orono.—Their Idols.—Songs chanted by the Chiefs, before they drink Ava.—Human Sacrifices.— Custom of knocking out the fore Teeth.—Notions with regard to a future State.—Marriages.—Remarkable Instance of Jealousy.—Funeral Rites 141 BOOK VI. Transactions during the Second Expedition to the North, by the Way of Kamtschatka; and on the return Home, by the Way of Canton and the Cape of Good Hope. CHAP. I. Departure from Oneeheow.—Fruitless Attempt to discover Modoopapappa.—Course steered for Awatska Bay.— Occurrences during that Passage.—Sudden Change from Heat to Cold.—Distress occasioned by the leaking of the Resolution.—View of the Coast of Kamtschatka.— Extreme rigour of the Climate.—Lose Sight of the Discovery.—The Resolution enters the Bay of Awatska.— Prospect of the Town of St. Peter and St. Paul.—Party sent Ashore.—Their Reception by the Commanding Officer of the Port.—Message dispatched to the Commander at Bolcheretsk.—Arrival of the Discovery.— Return of the Messengers, from the Commander.— Extraordinary Mode of Travelling.—Visit from a Merchant, and a German Servant belonging to the Commander 156 CHAP. II.