uch resemble a New England
whale-boat; the larger sort seem to be built chiefly for war, and will
carry from forty to eighty or a hundred armed men. We measured one
which lay ashore at Tolago. She was sixty-eight feet and a half long,
five feet broad, and three feet and a half deep. The bottom was sharp,
with straight sides like a wedge, and consisted of three lengths
hollowed out to about two inches, or an inch and a half thick, and well
fastened together with strong plaiting. Each side consisted of one
entire plank sixty-three feet long, ten or twelve inches broad, and
about an inch and a quarter thick, and these were fitted and lashed to
the bottom part with great dexterity and strength. A considerable
number of thwarts were laid from gunwale to gunwale, to which they were
securely lashed on each side, as a strengthening to the boat. The
ornament at the head projected five or six feet beyond the body, and was
about four feet and a half high. The ornament at the stern was fixed
upon that end as the stern-post of a ship is fixed upon its keel, and
was about fourteen feet high, two feet broad, and an inch and a half
thick. They both consisted of boards of carved work, of which the
design was much better than the execution."

The smaller canoes, which were of one piece hollowed out by fire,
usually had "outriggers,"--boards projecting from, and parallel to, the
canoes--to prevent their overturning, and occasionally two canoes were
joined together for the same purpose, as, if unsupported, they were
extremely liable to upset.

The tools with which these canoes and their other implements and
utensils were made consisted of axes and adzes made of a hard black
stone, or of a green talc, which latter stone is not only hard but
tough. They had chisels made of small fragments of jasper, and of human
bones. These also served the purpose of augers for boring holes.
Fish-hooks were of bone or shell; these, however, were not well made,
but in the fabrication of most of their implements, canoes, war-clubs,
baskets, etcetera, they displayed a considerable degree of taste,
neatness of hand, and ingenuity.

Our space forbids us following Captain Cook very closely in his many
voyages throughout the great archipelago of the South Seas. In this
volume we have touched but lightly here and there on the immense variety
of subjects which came under his observation. Those who wish for fuller
information will find it in the work e