And many a long depending shoot,

Seeking to strike its root,

Strait like a plummet, grew towards the ground; Some on the lower boughs which crost their way, Fixing their bearded fibres round and round,

With many a wring, and wild contortion wound; Some to the passing wind at times with sway

Of gentle motion swung;

Others of younger growth unmov'd were hung

Like stone-drops from the cavern's fretted height; Beneath was smooth and fair to sight,

Nor weeds, nor briars, deform'd the natural floor,

And through the leafy cope which bower'd it o'er

Came gleams of chequer'd light;

So like a temple did it seem, that there

A pious heart's first impulse would be prayer.”

NOTE 5. PAGE 9.

Rose too-unconscious instrument

Of crime and woe, to mortals sent !

That cane, whose luscious juice supplies
Europe's blood-purchas'd luxuries.

"Some very fine sugar-cane was brought to me; each of the pieces was six inches round: I had before told Tinah that our sugar was made of it, and he was very desirous to discover the means; for they were so very fond of our loaf sugar, that a present to any chief would have been incomplete without a piece of it.”Bligh's Voyage to the South Sea, page 86.

NOTE 6. PAGE 10.

Prone on the ground the melon lies,

Of different clime, of varied dies;

That of the tint of Hymen proud,

This rosy as a summer cloud.

"In my return I called on Poeeno and an elderly chief, a relation of his, called Moannah, the principal men of this district, and with whom I judged it my interest to be on good terms: I gave them several valuable articles; and, as the situation here was eligible for a garden, I planted melon, cucumber, and sallad, seeds. I told them many other things should be sown for their uses; and they appeared much pleased when they understood I intended to plant such things as would grow to be trees, and produce fruit. I saw large patches of tobacco growing without culture, and many pumpkin vines. The bread-fruit trees and cocoa-nut trees at this time were full of fruit. I went on board to dinner, and Moannah accompanied me. In the afternoon I returned to Poeeno's, with some additional seeds to improve the little garden I had begun to make in the forenoon."Ibid. page 69.

NOTE 7.

There her rich fruit Anana rears,

With coronet of verdant spears.

"I had now in a florishing state two orange plants, some vines, a fig-tree, and two pine-apple plants, which I gave to Poeeno, whose residence is a place favorable for their growth."-Ibid. page 86.

NOTE 8.

There round the slender palm entwine

The tendrils of the Gallic vine.

"I was assured by Oediddee, and several others, that the vines planted at the island Huaheine by Captain Cook, had succeeded, and bore fruit; and that some of the other plants, both at Huaheine and at Oaitepeha, a district on the south-east part of Otaheite, had been preserved, and were in a thriving state."—Ibid. page 91.

NOTE 9. PAGE 16.

The link'd ivahahs, side by side,

Short poles at once, unite, divide.

"The canoes, or boats, which are used by the inhabitants of this and the neighbouring islands, may be divided into two general classes; one of which they call Ivahahs, the other Pahies; the Ivahah is used for short excursions to sea, and is wall-sided and flat-bottomed ; the Pahie for longer voyages, and is bow-sided and sharp-bottomed: the Ivahahs are all of the same figure, but of different sizes, and used for different purposes; their length is from seventy-two feet to ten; but the breadth is by no means in proportion; for those of ten feet are about a foot wide, and those of more than seventy are scarcely two. There is the fighting ivahah, the fishing ivahah, and the travelling ivahah;