God of Bolabola (5) hear !

Accept this plantain, yam, and hog, well roasted,

Offerings to thy Godship dear,

With mahee (6) sweet as ever boasted;

And while thus I lowly bend,

Let my humble suit ascend.

[The sacrifice blazes up.

The flames arise,

Blest sacrifice!

Towha snuffs the savour;

Propitious sign

Of grace benign,

Sure token of his favor.

RECITATIVE.

Say, shall my son Omai reign?

Great Towha now an answer deign.

Towha assumes the Appearance of a Chief Mourner.

R E C I T A T I V E. — Otoo (appalled).

My quiv'ring flesh, my limbs bedew'd all o'er;

Each feeble sense — my eyes — my voice — no more '.

[Falls prostrate.

(5) Another of the Society Islands, the most ferocious in war, conquerors of Ulitea, which was anciently subject to Omai's ancestors.

(6) Bread.

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