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required size is attained. To strengthen the joinings, 

 a paste made of yabia, or some other adhesive sub- 

 stance, is used. The cloth is sometimes made to 

 a degree of fineness resembling the finest gauze ; 

 and by being frequently washed and bleached it 

 becomes perfectly white. 



Besides sulus and turbans for the head, mosquito 

 curtains and hanging screens are made of it. These 

 screens are used as partitions to divide a house into 

 compartments. They are printed in various patterns 

 which, although displaying a good deal of taste in 

 design, are poorly executed. The colours are placed 

 on raised forms made of strips of wood, generally of 

 bamboo. The juice of the laud (aleurites triloba), dogo 

 (rhizophora mucronata), and kura (morinda citrifolia) 

 is largely used for this purpose. 



A coarse cloth is made, in the same manner as 

 masi, from the bark of several species oibaha (ficus), 

 which grow in great numbers in Fiji. It is worn 

 by the poorest class of the people, and only, when 

 better cannot be got, by the well-to-do. 



The liku is a dress much worn by the Fijians on 

 festive occasions. It is made of the fibres of differ- 

 ent kinds of plants. One end of the fibres is fastened 

 to a band which is tied round the waist, the other 

 end hangs down over the thighs like a fringe. The 

 length of the liku varies according to the rank of 

 the wearer, some of them reaching to the knees, 

 others only to the thighs. The most fashionable 

 likus are made from the wa loo, a species of 

 fungus (rhizomorpha), that grows on decaying trees 

 in swamps, and prepared leaflets of the cocoa-nut tree 

 stained black or yellow by mud and turmeric respec- 

 tively. The fibres extracted from several species of 



