E awaow. Daphne-capitata.
This plant is used to poison fish, in order to catch them; and, for this purpose, they beat or mash it together and throw it into the rivers and sea within the reefs.

E owhe. Arundo-bambos.
This is the common bamboe, of which these islanders make great use; the large joints they keep to hold water and oil; of the small they make arrows, flutes, cases to hold small things; and, when cut into slips, they serve them for knives, and cut tolerably well.

E motoo. Melastoma-malabathrica,
This plant is one of those which they hang upon their whatta-note-toobapaow, or burial-stand, to be eaten by the soul of the deceased.

E hee, or E ratta. Aniotum-sagiserum.
This is a tall and stately tree which bears a round flat fruit, covered with a thick tough coat, and, when roasted and stripped of its rind, eats as well as a chesnut.

E avee. Spondias-dulcis.
This is a large stately tree, and often grows to the height of forty and fifty feet: the fruit, which, I believe, is peculiar to these isles, is of an oval shape, yellow when ripe, and grows in bunches of three or four, and is about the size of a middling apple, with a large stringy core: It is a very wholsome and palatable fruit, improving on the taste, which is nearest that of a mangoe; it is strongly impregnated with turpentine, and makes excellent pies when green. The wood serves for building canoes, and for several other purposes.

Pouraoo, and epooataroorroo. Crataeva-frondosa.
The fruit of this shrub they lay upon their corpses, and hang it upon their burial

whattas, it having an agreeable bitter smell: it is one of those which are sacred to their god Tane, and, for that reason, is generally planted in, or by the small Morais, called Morai Roma Tan&ecute; which are a sort of altar near the houses, upon which they offer victuals.

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