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Updated: May 28, 2025
My life in the house of Tetuanui Whence came the Polynesians A migration from Malaysia Their legends of the past Condition of Tahiti when the white came The great navigator, Cook Tetuanui tells of old Tahiti. Happiness in civilization consists in seeing life other than it really is. At Mataiea the simple truth of existence was joy.
"Every man in Tahiti brought one stone, and the marae was builded," said Tetuanui. "We were many then." He had not been there in fifty years. We crawled down the other side, a broken incline, and to the beach. Land-crabs scrambled for their holes, the sole inhabitants of the spot once given to chants and prayers, burials, and the sacrifice of humans to the never-satisfied gods.
We launched a large canoe, and two sturdy natives, relations of Tatini, took the paddles. They had made the journey more than once, but not at this season. We got into difficulties from the start. The shores were very different from those of Mataiea, Papeari, and Vairao, the three districts I had come through from the house of Tetuanui.
Tetuanui said that in his grandfather's day there was a bad odor about the ossary, as there was in Paco until the American Government abolished the iniquity. The altar itself was called Fatarau. Here were laid the offerings of fruit and meat, but human victims were not exposed on it. Their bodies were thrown into the ossary after the ceremony was completed.
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