ries and were only the more respected on that
account; but he says that in the public _marais_ almost the only persons
buried were the human victims offered in sacrifice, and sometimes the
priests, who were laid face downwards in the grave, for the curious
reason that otherwise the gaze of the dead men would blight the trees
and cause the fruit to fall to the ground.[167]

[161] (Sir) Basil Thomson, _Diversions of a Prime Minister_, p.
379.

[162] Captain James Cook, _Voyages_, v. 424. Elsewhere (v. 364)
he speaks of "a _morai_ or _fiatooka_"; and shortly afterwards,
referring to the same structure, he mentions it as "this
_morai_, or what I may as well call temple" (p. 365). As to the
equivalence of the words _morai_ and _marai_ (_marae_), see J.
A. Moerenhout, _Voyages aux Iles du Grand Ocean_ (Paris, 1837),
i. 466; and as to the significance of the word in its various
dialectical forms, see E. Tregear, _Maori-Polynesian Comparative
Dictionary_, p. 213, _s.v._ "malae."

[163] Captain James Cook, _Voyages_, i. 157 _sqq._; J. R.
Forster, _Observations made during a Voyage round the World_
(London, 1788), pp. 543 _sqq._; Captain James Wilson,
_Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean_, pp. 207
_sqq._; David Porter, _Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific
Ocean_ (New York, 1822), ii. 38 _sq._; D. Tyerman and G. Bennet,
_Journal of Voyages and Travels_ (London, 1831), i. 240-248, 265
_sqq._, 271, 274, 529 _sq._, ii. 13 _sq._, 38 _sq._; W. Ellis,
_Polynesian Researches_, Second Edition (London, 1832-1836), i.
340, 405; J. A. Moerenhout, _Voyages aux Iles du Grand Ocean_,
i. 466-470; G. H. von Langsdorff, _Reise um die Welt_ (Frankfurt
am Mayn, 1812), i. 115, 134; H. Melville, _Typee_ (London,
N.D.), pp. 166-169 (_Everyman's Library_); Matthias G----,
_Lettres sur les Iles Marquises_ (Paris, 1843), pp. 54 _sq._;
C. E. Meinicke, _Die Inseln des Stillen Oceans_ (Leipzig,
1875-1876), i. 49, ii. 180, 183 _sq._; G. Gerland, in Th. Waitz,
_Anthropologie_, vi (Leipzig, 1872) pp. 376 _sqq._

[164] Capt. James Cook, _Voyages_, i. 157 _sq._, "Their name for
such burying-grounds, which are also places of worship, is
_Morai_." Compare _id._, i. 217, 219, 220, 224, vi. 37, 41; J.
Turnbull, _Voyage round the World_ (London, 1813), p. 151, "the
_morais_, which serve the double purpose of places of