They performed out of doors, or in a building specially erected for the purpose, this building being often the largest and finest in the district. The visitors had evidently encountered a body of the Areoi society-a company of travelling entertainers held in high estimation by the islanders. Their song was unpremeditated, and accompanied with music they were continually going about from place to place, and they were rewarded by the master of the house, and the audience, with such things as one wanted and the other could spare.” (1, vol. We did not expect to have found among the uncivilized inhabitants of this sequestered spot a character, which has been the subject of such praise and veneration where genius and knowledge have been most conspicuous yet these were the bards or minstrels of Otaheite. The drummers accompanied the music with their voices, and, to our great surprise, we discovered that we were generally the subject of the song. The band consisted of two flutes and three drums, and we found a great number of people assembled upon the occasion. Banks, in his morning walk this day, met a number of the natives, whom, upon enquiry, he found to be travelling musicians and having learnt where they were to be at night, we all repaired to the place. Local people think it probably is Matavai Bay it certainly is not Queen Charlotte Sound, Webber's drawing of which is reproduced as a companion picture. I have sent copies to Tahiti, and whilst the outlines of Port Venus do not correspond with the picture, two reasons may account for that: possible or probable inaccuracies in the first sketch accentuated by probable or possible inaccuracies in the drawing made from the sketch, and the natural changes on the spot. One of these four pictures has been labelled Queen Charlotte Sound this is an error, and the error is being perpetuated, as it appears on every picture published of the scene said by Cleveley to be Queen Charlotte Sound. Secondly, there is a set of four pictures, sketched by James Cleveley (ship's carpenter) on the spot, and drawn and coloured from these sketches by John Cleveley, London, on the return of the ships. Firstly they were Cook's favourite anchorages in Tahiti and New Zealand, and he is the first explorer to put on record details of the music of the Polynesians. The attenuated air gave no firm support to the wings, and the least tilt developed into side-slip, while she seemed sluggish on her controls.The pictures of Matavai Bay and Queen Charlotte Sound are reproduced for two reasons. On the bloody front where Lee's lieutenants had faced Grant for almost a fortnight it was apparent by the morning of May 21 that the Federals had undertaken another side-slip. The whole operation, in fact, could be a swift side-slip to the right. Unless met as Grant's flank march of May 7 was, the side-slip might put the Federals between Lee's army and Richmond. Monticellis would come again now that it was the fashion for a picture to be anything except a picture and the future of Johns, with a side-slip into Buxton Knights.Īnderson was to side-slip to the right until he touched the left of Hoke, whose division would be in position before daylight.