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Ka Hana Kapa. 



" In every thing mannfactured by these people, there appears to be an uncom- 

 mon degree of neatness and ingeniiit}'. Their cloth, ^\•hich is the principal manu- 

 facture, is made from the morns papyrifcni; and doubtless, in the same manner as at 

 Otaheite and Tongataboo; for we bought some of the grooved sticks, with which it is 

 beaten. Its texture, however, though thicker, is rather inferior to that of the cloth of 

 either of the other places; but, in colouring or staining it, the people of Atooi [Kauai] 



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FIG. 19. KAPA BROLGHT BY COOK, FROM KAUAI. 



displa3- a superiority of taste, bj- the endless variation of figures which they execute. 

 One would suppose, on seeing a number of their pieces, that they had borrowed their 

 patterns from some mercer's shop, in which the most elegant productions of China 

 and Europe are collected ; besides some original patterns of their own. Their colours 

 indeed, except the red, are not very bright; but the regularity of the figures and 

 stripes is trul}- surprising; for, as far as we knew, they have nothing like stamps or 

 prints to make the impressions."' In what manner they produce their colours, we had 

 not opportunities of learning; but besides the party-coloured sorts, they have some 

 pieces of plain white cloth, and others of a single colour, particularl}- dark brown 



'We shaU sec in a later part of this work that they had stamps cut in bauibu, as weU as ruling pens. 



