1840.] PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE NATIVES. 365 



grants are now annually arriving in greater or less numbers. 

 But the additions made in this manner, fail to make good 

 the deficiencies in the native population, about one sixth of 

 whom die every year. In some of the districts, the families 

 of the ancient chiefs are almost extinct, and in nearly all 

 they are much less numerous than they formerly were. 



The foreign population of the group is composed of the 

 most heterogeneous materials, and in Honolulu and some of 

 the other towns the most striking contrasts are exhibited. 

 There are phlegmatic Dutchmen, beer-drinking and pipe-lov- 

 ing Germans, mercurial Frenchmen, conceited and self- 

 opinionated Englishmen fresh from the paradise of all true 

 Cockneys, calculating down-east Yankees, western hoosiers, 

 California Indians, greasy Mexicans, and last, but not least, 

 in this hotchpot of humanity, veritable flat-nosed and sallow- 

 faced Chinamen with the long tails and singular costume 

 peculiar to the natives of the Celestial Empire.* 



There is a close resemblance between the natives of the 

 Society and Sandwich Islands. Those inhabiting the latter 

 are several shades darker in complexion than the Tahitian, 

 but their features are very similar. Their color is a brownish 

 olive ; they have dark hair, expressive and intelligent eyes, and 

 more firm and muscular limbs than the natives of the Society 

 Islands, — resembling more nearly, in this last respect, the 

 people of the Samoiin Group, to whom, also, they appear to 

 be related. Both sexes of Hawaiians are inclined to become 

 corpulent as they advance in life. The females do not possess 

 much personal beauty, and their features are generally coarse 



* " A Bakery has been established here [Honolulu] by ' Sam & Mow,' bakers 

 from Canton, where bread, cakes, and pies, are manufactured in every variety, 

 and of excellent quality. Their advertisement contains a classical allusion in 

 the last line, which will not be readily perceived, except by those who are aware 

 of the arrogance of the Celestial Empire. 



' Good people all, come near and buy 

 Of Sam and Mow, good cake and pie, 

 Bread, hard or soft, for land or sea, 

 ' Celestial' made; come buy of we.' " 



Olmsted's Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, p. 213. 



