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AUGUST, 



on the neck, shoulders, and breast. The men wear 

 nothing but a belt, and the wrapping leaf as at Mal- 

 licollo. * The women have a kind of petticoat made 

 of the filaments of the plantain tree, flags, or some 

 such thing, which reaches below the knee. Both 

 sexes wear ornaments, such as bracelets, ear-rings, 

 necklaces, and amulets. The bracelets are chiefly 

 worn by the men ; some made of sea-shells, and 

 others of those of the cocoa-nut. The men also 

 wear amulets ; and those of most value being made 

 of a greenish stone, the green stone of New Zealand 

 is valued by them for this purpose. Necklaces are 

 chiefly used by the women, and made mostly of shells. 

 Ear-rings are common to both sexes, and those va- 

 vued most are made of tortoise-shell. Some of our 

 people having got some at the Friendly Islands, 

 brought it to a good market here, where it was of 

 more value than any thing we had besides; from 

 which I conclude that these people catch but few 

 turtle, though I saw one in the harbour, just as we 

 were getting under sail. I observed that, towards 

 the latter end of our stay, they began to ask for 

 hatchets, and large nails ; so that it is likely they 

 had found that iron is more serviceable than stone, 

 stone, or shells, of which all their tools I have 

 seen are made. Their stone hatchets, at least all 



those I saw, are not in the shape of ^jq_ ^ 



adzes, as at the other islands, but TT~ 



more like an axe, in this form. ^ 



In the helve, which is pretty thick, is made a hole 



into which the stone is fixed. 



These people, besides the cultivation of ground, 

 have few other arts worth mentioning. They 

 know how to make a coarse kind of matting, and a 

 coarse cloth of the bark of a tree, which is used 

 chiefly for belts. The workmanship of their canoes, I 

 have before observed, is very rude ; and their arms, 



* See the note, p. 32. 



