Travel of Georg Forster
Tahiti - Society Islands (Otaheite, O-Taheitee)
Title
The first encounter with the king O-Aheatua 2
Short description
Georg Forster describes the way in which silence is maintained at their first meeting with the king: "mamoò" is translated as "be silent" and the king's attendants use strokes of a stick to ensure that the command is obeyed.
Text on source
During this conference the croud, amounting at least to five hundred persons, was so excessively noisy, that it was impossible at times to distinguish a word; and on those occasions some of the king's attendants with a Stentor's voice called out mamoò! (be silent), and enforced his command by dealing out hearty blows with a long stick.
English translation
Folios/Pages
p. 307
Date
1773 08 23
Observations on the events description
The dots on the map indicate the places where sound and music events were described. They don't represent travel stages.
Participants
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Role
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Cook, James
Travel fellow
Forster, Johann Reinold
Travel fellow
Participants
How to quote
Fabbrocino A. P., "The first encounter with the king O-Aheatua 2" (Event description), Echos. Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues. Published 2024 03 16.
doi: 10.25430/echos.travels.76
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