40 THE CBUISE OF THE ' GUEAgOA.' 



themselves in the Hawaiian Islands. Their noses are very- 

 flat as compared with those of the Niue Islanders, and the 

 nostrils much dilated. The men are tall and stout, but 

 their muscles appear flabby ; many are tatooed from their 

 middle down to their legs, and the designs are so full and 

 well executed as to give the impi'ession of their wearing 

 pantaloons. Tliey smear their hair with lime, which gives 

 it a reddish tint. The women have no other covering than 

 an apron made of bark attached to their loins ; they make a 

 practice of whitening their hair with a paste, which looked 

 to me like arrowroot. These islanders are not quite so 

 noisy as those of Niue, but they are not a particle less in- 

 considerate or inquisitive. A woman seemed to be mightily 

 amused by thrusting her head through a port-hole in order 

 to have a good view of one of our officers who was in the 

 act of dressing ; and it was hardly to prevent his being 

 unaware of what slie was doing, that she cried out audibly 

 to him, ' Say ! say ! ' 



Soon after we had anchored, one of the two missionaries 

 of the island, Mr. Powell, paid us a visit in a ten-oared 

 boat. He was accompanied by Maunga, the chief of Pango- 

 Pango, a man of mature age, of a calm and dignified deport- 

 ment, who had for the occasion donned a black coat over 

 the shirt and waistcoat which constituted his usual attire.^ 



' Maunga is described by Erskine as being ' in 1849 a fine look- 

 ing young man, in a sailor's loose jacket and an ample flowing robe 

 of coloured siapo,' who bad recently arrived from Manua to assume 

 tbe cbieftainsbip of tbis island. — ' Islands of the Western Pacific,' 

 p. 42. 



