New Zealand - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 14 - By Robert Kerr









































































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these articles we got in exchange for axes, hatchets, nails, chissels,
cloth, red feathers, beads, knives, scissars, looking-glasses - Page 619
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All These Articles We Got In Exchange For Axes, Hatchets, Nails, Chissels, Cloth, Red Feathers, Beads, Knives, Scissars, Looking-Glasses, &C. Articles Which Will Ever Be Valuable Here.

I ought not to omit shirts as a very capital article in making presents; especially with those who have any connexion with the fair sex.

A shirt here is full as necessary as a piece of gold in England. The ladies at Otaheite, after they had pretty well stripped their lovers of shirts, found a method of clothing themselves with their own cloth. It was their custom to go on shore every morning, and to return on board in the evening, generally clad in rags. This furnished a pretence to importune the lover for better clothes; and when he had no more of his own, he was to dress them in new cloth of the country, which they always left ashore; and appearing again in rags, they must again be clothed. So that the same suit might pass through twenty different hands, and be as often sold, bought, and given away.

Before I finish this account of these islands, it is necessary to mention all I know concerning the government of Ulietea and Otaha. Oree, so often mentioned, is a native of Bolabola; but is possessed of Whenooas or lands at Ulietea; which I suppose he, as well as many of his countrymen, got at the conquest. He resides here as Opoony's lieutenant; seeming to be vested with regal authority, and to be the supreme magistrate in the island.

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