bright feathers, hair, &c. The fingers of the
women when they dance are ornamented with
long feathers, which are fastened to them in
such a way as to give to the hands somewhat
the appearance of wings. The motions
are not by 'any means vivacious—the women
move their hands, pretending to be birds; they
wriggle their bodies about also in imitation
of eels, and approach each other gradually
in this way on one heel. Successive sets of
dancers thus present themselves, and the
feast is kept up usually for three days; pork
and potatoes being eaten, and cava drunk;
the singing of native songs is often added
to increase and vary the enjoyment.

All the natives of the Marquesas have
numerous names. Daniel himself had thirty,
which belonged, in fact, to a graver class of
nicknames. His most common title (I write
it from the sound), was Touanahheematehoei,
or (Tou-an-â-e-mâ-te-o-ey), which meant "the
great chief."

There was no lack of food. The people
cultivated the (sweet) potato with success,
and had plenty of yams and bread-fruit.
They caught numbers of fish, and kept a great
many swine.

The savages were very fond of talking.
"When he knew their language, a number
of them would come to Daniel, set him in the
midst, and call upon him to tell them stories,
to which they would sit and listen quietly for
hours. "They wanted to know all about
America, and white people; whether he had
a wife at home, and the like." On one occasion
they asked whether he would take them
with him to America.—"Yes," he said, "but
you would cry if I did."—"Ah, yes," they
answered, "that is true; we should cry after
our fathers and mothers—we should cry to
come back to our lands. The whites," they
said, "must surely think very little of their
fathers and mothers; or must leave them
when they are very young, or they never
could go sailing all over the world as they
do. If we attempted it, we should be always
crying either after our parents or our
children."

Such conversations made the young white
chief a great favourite with his tribe, and he
obtained such influence among them, that he
believes he could have prevented them from
again attacking other whites. He never went
to war with them, however, "he had too much
respect for his own safety; he never knew
what might happen." His wives "thought a
very great deal about him, and if they fancied
he had ever thought of going out to fight,
they would have set on him, and bound him
fast in his own house." He always told them,
that if he went away, he would come back
again; and he believes, therefore, that they
are still expecting him. He lived very
happily with his house-full of wives, dividing
his attentions very equally among them, and
allowing due rank to "the princess." He was
vvell treated by the men.

The natives do a little trading among
themselves; the articles of barter being chiefly
pigs and tappa cloth, fish-hooks, muskets,
powder, and things of that kind. Their
surgical skill is small; but they have good
constitutions upon which to practise, and seem
to have learned certain good principles. The
chief demand for the doctor's art is in the
cure of musket wounds, in which the treatment
is to keep the track of the ball as clean
as possible.

The tribe with which Daniel herded was,
if I recollect rightly, named the Cauachas,
and his residence was on the island called by
the natives Motâni. He gave me, however,
the names of the surrounding islands at the
same time, and I am not quite sure that I
have retained the proper one; but it was
either Mat or Magdalena. The others are
Magdalena, Fatuiva, Toowata, Domenique,
Rahuga, and Nukuhiva.

In answer to a question as to the possibility
of civilising his old friends, he said that the
French had established a settlement on
Rahuga (I think) where they had remained
during five years. They built a small fort,
European houses, and churches; but finding
the place too expensive, or for some
other reason, they then abandoned it. During
the night after their departure, all the natives
who had been friendly with the French were
either killed or taken prisoners, and on the
next day all the houses and other edifices
that could be destroyed were pulled to pieces,
and the prisoners were landed on another
island; so the place became again as wild as
it was before the French had it in charge.
There are some French still in Ruhiva, and
some French missionaries in Ruapo.

Having in my remembrance Herman
Melville's story of adventures in the Marquesas,
I asked my patient about Typee or Happar.
He informed me that there was a Typee Bay
in Nuhiva (Nukuhiva?) where the people
were very savage, and that he had heard of
Happa in Domenique. He had heard also of
Hanapa Bay, where a white man named
Brown had been killed who had left his vessel
there.

After Daniel had been on the island about
six years, he and another white from another
island began, with the assistance of the
natives, to build a schooner with which they
hoped to trade with California, and the west
coast of America. When they had been at
work for about six months, Daniel, attacked
with dysentery, became very low and weak.
At that time an American ship passed the
island, and a boat came ashore (the men
being well armed) in search of wood and
water. Daniel went on board the ship,
telling the natives that he should return.
Had they thought him anxious to escape from
them they would, no doubt, have kept him
prisoner until the ship was gone. He went
on board, the captain promised fair to him,
and so he left the island; not, he says, without