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from the treasures broiiglit home in succeeding voyages. Although by the kindness 

 of my friend Dr. Franz Heger I was enabled to examine the original inventories of 

 this purchase no information of any special interest was obtained; in those days these 

 articles were simple ciii-iosififs for the imperial cabinet. Now in the kaiserlich-koniglich 

 naturhistorische Hofmuseum in Vienna. Fig. loi. 



70. Cape: body of white ( Pha'rf/ioii nebricanda/) with a narrow border of black 

 cock's feathers. Extreme width is 40 inches. At the top is a sedlion of open olona 

 net. In the same museum and with the same history as the last. 



71. Cape of mixed feathers, mostly the domestic fowl, with a few 00. This, 

 like the two preceeding, is in the Hofmuseum at \'ienna. 



72. Cape of iiwi with figures of 00. It has loops at the lower corners as well 

 as the usual strings at the neck. By the kindness of Mr. Marshal B. Evans and 

 Prof. M. L. Perrin I obtained a photograph of this cape which is No. 904 in the 



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FIG. 102. 



museum of the Georgia Augusta University at Gottingen. The label reads, "Ein 

 Federmantel eines Oberhauptes aus Owaihi aus eineni Netz bestehend, M'orauf Federn 

 befestigt sind. Die rothen sind von der Certhia coccinea, die gelben von der Stacula 

 longirostra." Brought to Gottingen at the end of the last century. Fig. 102. 



73. Cape composed mainly of long feathers, with a frontal and cervical border 

 of alternating triangles of 00 and iiwi: a figure has already been given on page 4. 

 This with other relics of Captain Cook was exhibited at the Colonial Exhibition at 

 London a few years ago, by the representative of Cook's family, and purchased by the 

 Premier of New South Wales for the Australian Museum in Sydney. 



74. Cloak now in New York: brought from India early in this century; previ- 

 ous history lost. Said to be of fine workmanship, but faded and in rags. 



75. Cape of 00 with a crescent of iiwi in the center and a neck border of red, 

 black and yellow. Many years ago Kamehameha III. gave this fine cape to William 

 L. Lee, the first Chief Justice of these Islands. OAober 12th, 1S46, Mr. Lee arrived 

 on his way to Oregon, and fortunately was persuaded to remain and assume the duties 

 of a judge in a country where there were no courts worth}- the name. I cpiote from 



