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pa'u. While we were opening wide our eyes she looked as self-possessed and eas}- as 

 though sitting in the shades of Eden." 



Before the missionaries landed from the T/iaddeics, the king dined on board with 

 them. "His dress on the occasion was a girdle [malo], a green silk scarf put on 

 under the left arm, brought up and knotted over the right shoulder, a chain of gold 

 around his neck and over his chest, and a wreath of j^ellow feathers upon his head." 



If the rather dissipated young king was as well-formed as his officer Kalani- 

 moku it must have been pleasant to see him undisguised by the tailor, and we recall 

 the account given by another missionary of another celebration of the anniversary of 

 the death of Kamehameha I in Ma}^ two j-ears after the landing of the passengers 

 by the Thaddens. I have quoted this in another place in illustration of the use of 

 Kahilis,*' but it will bear repetition here in illustration of the dress of the highest 

 chiefs in the land, very little modified from that of the olden time. 



"Tameha-maru [Kamamalu] on this day was, as usual, a conspicuous object. 

 The car of state in which she joined the processions passing in different direAions 

 consisted of an elegantly modelled whale-boat fastened firmly to a platform of wicker 

 work thirt}' feet long by twelve wide, and borne on the heads of seventy men. The 

 boat was lined and the whole platform covered, first with imported broadcloath, and 

 then with beautiful patterns of kapa or native cloth of a variety of figures and rich 

 colours. The men supporting the whole were formed into a solid body so that the 

 outer rows only at the sides and ends were seen; and all forming these wore the 

 splendid scarlet and yellow cloaks and helmets of which j^ou have read accounts ; and 

 than which scarce anything can appear more superb. The ovdy dress of the queen 

 was a scarlet silk/^'// or native petticoat, and a coronet of feathers. She was seated in 

 the middle of the boat and screened from the sun by an immense Chinese umbrella of 

 scarlet damask [B. M. No. 5152] richly ornamented with gilding, fringe and tassels, 

 and supported by a chief standing behind her, in a scarlet malo or girdle, and feather 

 helmet. On one quarter of the boat stood Karimoku [Kalanimoku], the Prime 

 Minister, and on the other Naihe, the national orator, both also in malos of scarlet 

 silk and helmets of feathers, and each bearing a kahili or feathered staff of state near 

 30 feet in height. The upper parts of these kahilis were of scarlet feathers so ingeni- 

 ously and beautifully arranged on artificial branches attached to the staffs as to form 

 cylinders fifteen or eighteen inches in diameter, and twelve or fourteen feet long, the 

 lower parts or handles were covered with alternate rings of tortoise shell and ivory of 

 the neatest workmanship and highest polish."*^ 



'^Memoirs B. P. Bishop Museum, i, p. 19. 



°' Private Journal of a Voyage to the Pacific Ocean and Residence at the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1822, 

 1823, 1824 and 1825. By C. S. Stewart. New York, 1828, p. 109. 



