T H E P A C I F I C O C E A N. 231 



The common drcfs, both of tlic women and of the men, ^7/^- 



February. 



lias been already dcfcribcd. The firft have often much 

 larger pieces of cloth wrapped round them, reaching from 

 jufl below the breads to the hams, or lower; and feveral 

 were feen with pieces thrown loofely about the fhouldcrs, 

 which covered the greateft part of the body; but the chil- 

 dren, when very young, are quite naked. They wear no- 

 thing upon the head ; but the hair, in both fexes, is cut in 

 different forms ; and the general fafliion, efpccially among 

 tlie women, is, to have it long before, and fhort behind. 

 The men often had it cut, or fhaved, on each fide, in fuch a 

 manner, that the remaining part, in fome meafure, re- 

 fcmhlcs the creft of their caps or helmets, formerly de- 

 fcribed. Both fexes, however, feem very carelefs about 

 their hair, and have nothing Hke combs to drefs it with, 

 Inftances of wearing it, in a fingular manner, were fome- 

 times met with among the men, who twift it into a num- 

 ber of fcparate parcels, like the tails of a wig, each about 

 the thicknefs of a finger ; though the greateft part of thefc, 

 ■which are fo long that they reach far down the back, wc 

 obfcrved, were artificially fixed upon the head, over their 

 own hair*. 



It is remarkable, that, contrary to the general praiflice of 

 the iftands we had hitherto difcovered in the Pacific Ocean, 

 the people of the Sandwich Iftands have not their ears per- 

 forated ; nor have they the leaft idea of wearing ornaments 

 in them. Both fexes, neverthekfs, adorn themfelves with 

 necklaces made of bunches of fmall black cord, like our 



* The print of Horn Ifland, which wc meet with in Mr. Dalrymple's account of 

 Le Maire and Schoutcn's voyage, reprefents fome of the natives of that ifland witii 

 fuch long tails, hanging from their heads, as are here defcribed. See DalrympW t 

 Voyages to the Seuth Pacific, Vol, ii. p. 58. 



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