200 Ka Hana Kapa. 



presentation was more formal and peculiar. It was on the eighth of September, 1777: 

 "A party of us dined with our former shipmate, Oedidee, on fish and pork. The hog 

 weighed about thirty pounds; and it ma}' be worth mentioning that it was alive, 

 dressed and brought upon the table, within the hour. We had but just dined when 

 Otoo came and asked me if my belly was full? On my answering in the affirmative. 



Fig. 121. A I'RICSEXT OF KATA. COOK. 



he said, 'Then come along with me.' I accordingl}- went with him to his father's, 

 where I found some people emploj-ed in dressing two girls with a prodigious quantit}' 

 of fine cloth, after a verj- singular fashion. The one end of each piece of cloth, of 

 which there w'ere a good many, was held up over the heads of the girls, while the 

 remainder was wrapped round their bodies, under the arm-pits. Then the upper ends 

 were let fall, and hung down in folds to the ground, over the other, so as to bear some 

 resemblance to a circular hoop-petticoat. Afterward, round the outside of all, were 

 wrapped several pieces of differently colored cloth, which considerably increased the 

 size; so that it was not less than five or six 3'ards in circuit, and the weight of this 

 singular attire was as much as the poor girls could support. To each were hung two 

 taames or breast-plates, b}' way of enriching the whole, and giving it a rich appearance. 



