is the name given at Otaheite in the South sea to the burying grounds, which are also places of worship. This is a pile of stone raised pyramidically upon an oblong base or square 267 feet long and 87 wide. On each side is a flight of steps; those at the sides being broader than those at the ends; so that it terminated not in a square of the same figure with the base, but in a ridge like the roof of a house. There were 11 of these steps to one of these morais, each of which was 4 feet high, so that the height of the pile was 44 feet; each step was formed of one course of white coral stone, which was neatly squared and polished; the rest of the mass (for there was no hollow within) consisted of round pebbles, which, from the regularity of their figure, seemed to have been wrought. The foundation was of rock stones, which were also squared. In the middle of the top stood an image of a bird carved in wood, and near it lay the broken one of a fish carved in stone. The whole of this pyramid made part of one side of a spacious area or square 360 feet by 354, which was walled in with stone, and paved with flat stones in its whole extent. About 100 yards to the west of this building was another paved area or court, in which were several small stages raised on wooden pillars about seven feet high, which are called by the Indians evatas, and seem to be a kind of altars, as upon these are placed provisions of all kinds, as offerings to their gods. On some of them were seen whole hogs, and on others the skulls of above 50, beside the skulls of many dogs. The principal object of ambition among the natives is to have a magnificent morai. The male deities (for they have them of both sexes) are worshipped by the men, and the female by the women; and each have morais, to which the other sex is not admitted, though they have also morais common to both.