Vue de I’Ifle d’Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d’offrandes.

Rare engraving from the French edition of the accounts of Cook’s first voyage, published (1774) the year after the English edition (1773).

The title in the English versions was:

[A view in the island of Huaheine; with the Ewharra no Eatua, or House of God]

A small altar on the island of Huahine with an offering. At left is a tree called Owharra, with which the houses are thatched.

Leeward Islands, Society Islands.

Reference: Joppien 1.70B ill. pp. 130

From Hawkesworth, Relation des Voyages Entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste Britannique Actuallement Regnante:…..