2-J.6 THE QUEKT^'S PORTRAIT. 



Kanackas are appointed to attend him, and he 

 can hardly move without their assistance. 



Nomahanna is vain of her tremendous ap- 

 petite. She considers most people too thin, 

 and recommends inaction as an accelerator of 

 her admired embonpoint — so various are the 

 notions of beauty. On the Sandwich Islands, 

 a female figure a fathom long, and of immea- 

 surable circumference, is charming ; whilst the 

 European lady laces tightly, and sometimes 

 drinks vinegar, in order to touch our hearts by 

 her slender and delicate symmetry. 



One of our officers obtained the Queen's per- 

 mission to take her portrait. The limner's art 

 is still almost a novelty here ; and many persons 

 of rank solicited permission to witness the ope- 

 ration. With the greatest attention, they watch- 

 ed every stroke of the outline, and loudly ex- 

 pressed their admiration as each feature ap- 

 peared upon the paper. The nose was no 

 sooner traced, than they exclaim.ed — " Now 

 Nomahanna can smell !"' When the eyes were 

 finished — •"'* Xow she can see !" They expressed 

 especial satisfaction at the sight of the mouth, 

 because it would enable her to eat ; and they 



