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Si'LA FROM Fiji. 



A very beautiful border of a sula brought from Fiji by the Wilkes Expedition 

 in 1840, now in the National Museum, the photograph kindly sent me by the 

 Museum authorities. The design is totally different from the Hawaiian and is 

 very artistically arranged and stamped. The lower section is mainly in black, the 

 upper in bischofia brown stamped with the upete ; the border is carefully elaborated 

 and is worthy of much more study than we can give it here. 



