LILTUOKALANI CAPE. 



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So far only the pair of hats have been found; of course it is possible that there 

 may be another in private hands, but none has appeared in museums. The Petrograd 

 collection was the most likely place to look for one if any more existed, but if the con- 

 jectures of the author are well founded there would probably not be more than two of 

 these "complimentary" imitations of foreign mahiole made, one for "Lono", the divine 

 name given to Cook by the islanders when he first appeared, and the other for Captain 

 King whom the natives much loved and believed a son of the commander, so evident 



FIG. 15. STRUCTURE OF THE FEATHER HAT. 



was the confidence Cook reposed in his young lieutenant whom all the staff seem to 

 have liked, and whom Captain Clerke who succeeded to the command of the expedition 

 after the death of Cook, on his death bed appointed his successor. 



It is certainly curious that in the remarkable scattering of the Cook relics these 

 hats should now be settled in museums as nearly antipodal as possible on land, Vienna 

 in Austria and Wellington in New Zealand. It is also interesting that two of the best 

 existing collections of the articles Cook's expedition gathered from the Pacific have re- 

 turned to their original home after strange wanderings, while the Hawaiian Islands with 

 which the name of Cook is sadly though everlastingly connected, have hardly an im- 

 portant specimen! 



