anges of weather. They believe, that
when she is angry with them, the productions of the earth are blasted;
that many things are destroyed by lightning; and that they themselves
are afflicted with sickness and death, as well as their hogs and other
animals. When this anger abates, they suppose that every thing is
restored to its natural order; and it should seem that they have a great
reliance on the efficacy of their endeavours to appease their offended
divinity. They also admit a plurality of deities, though all inferior to
_Kallafootonga_. Amongst them, they mention _Toofooa-boolootoo_, god of
the clouds and fog; _Talleteboo_, and some others, residing in the
heavens. The first in rank and power, who has the government of the sea,
and its productions., is called _Futtafaihe_, or, as it was sometimes
pronounced, _Footafooa_, who, they say, is a male, and has for his wife
_Fykava kajeea_; and here, as in heaven, there are several inferior
potentates, such as _Vahaa fonooa, Tareeava, Mattaba, Evaroo_, and
others. The same religious system, however, does not extend all over the
cluster of the Friendly Isles; for the supreme god of _Hepaee_, for
instance, is called _Alo Alo_; and other isles have two or three of
different names. But their notions of the power and other attributes of
these beings are so very absurd, that they suppose they have no farther
concern with them after death.

They have, however, very proper sentiments about the immateriality and
the immortality of the soul. They call it life, the living principle,
or, what is more agreeable to their notions of it, an _Otooa_, that is,
a divinity, or invisible being. They say, that immediately upon death,
the souls of their chiefs separate from their bodies, and go to a place
called _Boolootoo_, the chief, or god, of which is _Gooleho_. This
_Gooleho_ seems to be a personification of death; for they used to say
to us, "You, and the men of Feejee (by this junction meaning to pay a
compliment, expressive of their confession of our superiority over
themselves), are also subject to the power and dominion of _Gooleho_."
His country, the general receptacle of the dead, according to their
mythology, was never seen by any person; and yet, it seems, they know
that it lies to the westward of Feejee; and that they who are once
transported thither, live for ever; or, to use their own expression, are
not subject to death again, but feast upon all the favourite products of
thei