16*2 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



a smaller square mat as an apron ; boys go quite 

 naked till they have arrived at manhood. The 

 women wear two longer mats, fastened with a string 

 over the hips, the girls wear, very early, a small 

 apron. The men frequently have, besides the 

 flower and shell wreaths, with which both sexes 

 adorn themselves, a necklace of stringed dolphin's 

 teeth, with plates of the bones of the same animal, 

 or of the turtle, hanging in front. For this orna- 

 ment tliin, round shells, or slices of cocoa-nut shells, 

 are used. We likewise found among their orna- 

 ments the tail feathers of the tropical birds, the 

 feathers of the frigate bird, and bracelets formed ol' 

 the shell of a large univalve, and well polished. 



The Irus, or chiefs, are frequently distinguished 

 by their large stature, never by immoderate cor- 

 pulency. * The tattooing in them generally extends 

 over those parts of the body which are not tattooed 

 in common people, the sides, the hips, the neck, 

 or the arms. 



The houses of the Radackers consist only of a 

 roof supported on four posts, with a hanging floor. 

 They are only high enough to admit a person to 

 sit under them. You climb through a square 

 opening into the upper room which contains all 

 their little property. They sleep on this floor or 

 in the open space below, and several open huts of 



* The chief of the group of Ligiep is said to make an excep- 

 tion, and to be a particularly fat man. 



