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tlowers, and had cylinders of tortoise-shell, also ornamented with flow- 

 ers, hanging from the ears. The women were extremely bashful, retir- 

 ing, and modest. Kotzebue and his associates went through every 

 part of the group of islands without the least apprehension from the 

 natives, whom they invariably found mild, inoffensive, and obliging. 

 "I was unarmed," he says, "for I felt myself quite secure among these 

 kind-hearted children of Nature, who, to amuse me, would play and 

 dance before me." It was evident they had never before seen white 

 men, for, on their first approach, they were dreadfully terrified, and it 

 was some time before they couhl be prevailed on to visit the ship; the 

 hogs and dogs on board greatly alarmed them, and were considered as 

 huge rats, the only quadrupeds with which they were acquainted. 



Among their most useful plants were the cocoa nut tree, the pauda- 

 nus, and the bread-fruit, which furnished them with food, raiment, and 

 lodging. 



The fruit of the pandauus constitiites in Radack the food of the people. The 

 conipouiid fibrous stoue-fruits which compose the conical fruit contain a spicy juice 

 at their basis, the point where they are fixed. To obtain this juice, the fruit is first 

 beaten with a stone, the fibres chewed, and pressed in the nnjuth. The fruit is also 

 baked in pits, after tlie manner of the South Sea, not so much to eat it in this state 

 as to prepare "mogau" from it, a spicy dry confectionery, Avhich is carefully pre- 

 served as a valuable stock for long voyages. To prepare the "mogan" all the mem- 

 bers of one or more families are employed. From the stoue-fruits, as they come out 

 of the baking-pit, the condeused juice is expressed by passing them over the edge 

 of a shell, then spread oat on a grate covered with leaves, exposed over a sliglit 

 charcoal tire to tlie sun, and dried. The thin slices, as soon as they are sufhcieiitlj' 

 dried, are ivdled up tight, aud tliese rolls then neatly wrapped in the leaves of the 

 tree and tied up. The kernel of this fruit is well tasted, but difficult to be obtained, 

 and is often neglected. From the leaves of the pandauus the women prepare all 

 sorts of mats, as well the square ones with elegaut borders, which serve as aprons, 

 as those which are used as ship's sails, and the thicker ones for sleeping upon. (Vol. 

 iii, p. 150.) 



The naturalist seems to think that these children of Nature were 

 somewhat restrained from the besetting vice of savages, that of appro 

 priating to themselves the property of others, by a person of the name 

 of Kadu, from the reef of Ulea (one of the numerous islets forming the 

 great group of the Oarolinas, and distant from this place at least 1,500 

 miles), aud who, though he had never seen an European ship or Euro- 

 pean man, had heard much of both. This extraordinary character, 

 notwithstanding all the entreaties of his friends, determined to accom- 

 pany Lieutenant Kotzebue; and when they became enabled to under- 

 stand each other, they learned from him that having one day leit l-lea 

 in a sailing-boat with three of his countrymen, a violent storm arose and 

 drove them out of their course; that they drifted about the open sea for 

 eight months, according to their reckoning by the moon, making a knot 

 on a cord at every new moon. Being expert fishermen, they sul)sisted 

 entirely on the produce of the sea, and when the rain fell laid in as 

 much fresh water as they had vessels to contain it. " Kadu," says 



Kotzebue, " who was the best diver, fiequently went down to 

 24 the bottom of the sea, where it ifi well Inown that the water is 



not so salt, with a cocoa-nut (shell) with only a small opening."* 

 When these unfortunate men reached the Isles of Iladack, however, 

 every hope and almost every feeling had died within them; their sail 

 had long been destroyed, tlieir canoe long been (lie sport of winds aud 

 waves; and they were picked up by the iiduibitajits of Aur in a state 

 of insensibility. Three or four years had elaiDsed since their arrival, and 



■* Chamisso states this circumstance more cautiously ; he brought up coo/er water 

 (lie sayH) which, " accordiiKj to their opinion," was likewise less salt. 



