THE TONGANS. 491 



profound because shown in ways which seem to us peculiar. 

 One of them was to uncover the body from the waist, and it 

 seems to have been a matter of indifference, or rather of con- 

 venience, whether this was done upwards or downwards.* In 

 the Friendly Islands it was accounted a striking; mark of 



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rudeness to speak to the king while standing up. 



There was also a certain amount of commerce between the 

 different islands. Bora-bora and Otahaw produced abundance 

 of cocoa-nut oil, which was exchanged at Tahiti for cloth. 

 The Low Islands, again, could not successfully grow the paper- 

 mulberry ; but they had a breed of dogs with long silky hair, 

 which was much prized in the other islands. 



* Cook's First Voyage, vol. ii. p. 125, 



