106 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
those on shore is severed amid the waving hats and upturned faces. 
This pretty custom and the Hawaiian fashion of bedecking de- 
parting friends with ‘‘leis’’ or wreaths of brightly colored flowers, 
are farewells that struck us as beautiful and expressive of the 
friendships that the traveler finds in the far away islands of 
Oceanica. 
