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Errata.

• Page 2; after line 16, insert, A large eel was caught by. one of our people, which was of a purple nutmeg colour, clouded with irregular spots of a darker colour, and was also full of small white dots.
• Page 4, line 17, for island, read, place.
• Page 5, line 20, dele, when the air was not so dry.
• Page 7, line 10, dele, to the rest.
• Page 7, line 25, after forehead, insert, and is tied behind with the tendons of' some animal.
• Page 7, line 29, for, We saw also an ornament made of shells, read, We saw one of these ornaments.
• Page 8, line 4, for, the, read, these.
• Page 8, line, 12, for, hill, read, hills.
• Page 8, line 28, for, it, read, the fire.
• Page 16, line 22, after, figure, insert, Notwithstanding these flies are so great an inconvenience, the natives, from a religious notion, will not kill any of them.
• Page 17, line 10, after, paste, insert, or pudding.
• Page 17, line 11, for, Makey, read, Mahey.
• Ibid. ibid, for, and a substance called Meya, read, and Meya, a species of wild plantain.
• Page 20, line 6, for, Tobiah, read, Toobaiah.
• Page 20, line 31, dele, but.
• Page 20, line 33, for, ate, read, eat.
• Page 21, line 2, after, island, insert, which the Otaheiteans hold sacred, as well as the flies, and therefore will not kill any of them.
• Page 22, line 24, for, was, read, they called.
• Page 22, line 29, for, VIII. read, VII.
• Page 23, line 23, for, joined at the bottom, read, the legs joined at the bottom, cross-ways.
• Page 24, line 7, for, purawei, read, parawei.^*
• Page 24, line 15, for, fig. 13, read, fig. 27.
• Page 24, line 25, for, or bunches of hair curiously plaited. They also wear teepootas, read, They also wear tamoous, or bunches of human hair curiously plaited.
• Page 24, line 30, for, taowree, read, taowdee.
• Page 24, line 31, for, whaow, read, waow.
• Page 25, line 2, for, the men, read, the two men.
• Page 26, line 5, dele, 2.
• Page 26, line 7, after, ears, insert, [ibid. fig. 1 and 2.]
• Page 35, line 13, for, to a valley, read, up the great valley that leads.
• Page 35, line 14, after, Orowhaina, insert, a high peaked bill, so called.
• Page 38, line 8, after, monoe, insert, or cocoa-oil.
• Page 40, line 15, for small blue parrot, read, blue parroquet.
• Page 41, line 24, for, E neearohettee, read, E neearoheettee.
• Page 42, line 3, for, Eatooas, read,Ethooa, or god.
• Page 43, line 6, after, Venes, insert, or blue parroquet.
• Page 44, line 1, for, Etoa-casuarina. Equisetifolia. read, Etoa. Casuerina-equisitifolia.
• Page 57, for, 75, the number of the page, read, 57.
• Page 63, after, Potobe, Firstly, insert, Ea, Yes; Aowra, No.
• Page 77, line 11, after, ditto, insert, about three inches in length.
• Page 87, line 28, for, truncheon, read, bludgeon. [See pl. XXVI.18. fig.]
• Page 87, line 30, after, XV. insert, and XIX.
• Page 93, line 26, after, paddles, insert, by the like number of men, who look the same way they row, striking their paddles into the water, with the points downward, at the same time bending their bodies forward, and as it were driving the waves behind them.
• Page 102, line 5, dele, which.
• Page 114, at the bottom insert the following notes. Baracootas, a fish remarkably smooth, about seven or eight feet long.
  • Flying-gurnards, a flying-fish of a remarkably fine gold colour.
  • Drum-fish, so called from the noise they make.
  • Chimera, a fish of a silver colour.
• Page 115 line 9, after, wattles, insert, a bird about the size of' a blackbird, remarkable for it's fine singing, with two beautiful white curled feathers, (by some called Wattles) under the thract.
• Page 124 line 29 for, month, read, months.page break
• Page 129, line 21, after, which, insert, somewhat.
• Page 132, line 8, after, much, add a semicolon.
• Page 132, line 9, dele the semicolon.
• Page 144, line 21, for, Meyia, read, Meiya.
• Page 144, line 24, for, the best, read, their best.
• Page 144, line 27, for, perro—, read, parro—.
• Page 144, line 29, for, cocatoes, read, cocatoos.
• Page 150, line 17, for, Haliotes, read, Haliotis.
• Page 152, line 27, for, Gadugoo, read, Gaduggoo.
• Page 155, line 8, after, that, insert, the.
• Page 158, line 20, for, there, read, they.
• Page 178, line 25, for, Bougees, read, Bugeess.
• Page 180, line 2 and 6, for, Orrang, read, Qrang.