ing the music with his voice;
and the dancers sometimes sing in concert.

I have already mentioned that white is the colour appropriated to the
dance, but the style of painting is left to every one's fancy. Some are
streaked with waving lines from head to foot; others marked by broad
cross-bars, on the breast, back, and thighs, or encircled with spiral
lines, or regularly striped like a zebra. Of these ornaments, the face
never wants its share, and it is hard to conceive any thing in the shape
of humanity more hideous and terrific than they appear to a stranger--seen,
perhaps, through the livid gleam of a fire, the eyes surrounded by large
white circles, in contrast with the black ground, the hair stuck full of
pieces of bone and in the hand a grasped club, which they occasionally
brandish with the greatest fierceness and agility. Some dances are
performed by men only, some by women only, and in others the sexes mingle.
In one of them I have seen the men drop on their hands and knees and
kiss the earth with the greatest fervor, between the kisses looking up to
Heaven. They also frequently throw up their arms, exactly in the manner in
which the dancers of the Friendly Islands are depicted in one of the plates
of Mr. Cook's last voyage.

Courtship here, as in other countries, is generally promoted by this
exercise, where every one tries to recommend himself to attention and
applause. Dancing not only proves an incentive, but offers an opportunity
in its intervals. The first advances are made by the men, who strive
to render themselves agreeable to their favourites by presents of
fishing-tackle and other articles which they know will prove acceptable.
Generally speaking, a man has but one wife, but infidelity on the side of
the husband, with the unmarried girls, is very frequent. For the most part,
perhaps, they intermarry in their respective tribes. This rule is not,
however, constantly observed, and there is reason to think that a more
than ordinary share of courtship and presents, on the part of the man,
is required in this case. Such difficulty seldom operates to extinguish
desire, and nothing is more common than for the unsuccessful suitor to
ravish by force that which he cannot accomplish by entreaty. I do not
believe that very near connections by blood ever cohabit. We knew of no
instance of it.

But indeed the women are in all respects treated with savage barbarity
Condemned not only to carry the children but all