226 THE QUEEN 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 exclaimed &quot; Now 

 Nomahanna can smell f When the eyes were 

 finished &quot; Now she can see !&quot; They expressed 

 especial satisfaction at the sight of the mouth, 

 because it would enable her to eat ; and they 



