UFE IX THE BCEES lil 
wooden bowl, a cocoanut shel] for drmking the bever- 
age, the bamboo waier-vesel, a handful of fibre for 
straming the kava, and the root cf the South Sea pep- 
per from which it is prepared. No sooner have they 
to throw the rope affixed to the kava-bowl toward the 
person Inshest m rank. than a leadimg man. perhaps a 
heathen pres. bezims chaniimg a song. im which the 
whole assembly joms: and two voung fellows beat time 
with Hitle sticks applied «2 a bamboo or ant other 
sounding wood that happens to be handv. The leader 
of the chant does ncvi Si motionless, but waves his body, 
ames. and hands m =s2c) a vaneiy of ways and with 
seach extreme ease. that vou fancy vou can imitaie him 
as readily as the whole assembly does. Bui the very frm 
time vou ful to the sreait delicht of vour naive spec- 
tates, His moiions are noi dificult, but viu never 
keow what ther are come to be unl 1 is too hie to 
imitate, amd he has already passed on 16 something else. 
The interest of this bre phy is thu: well kepi up. and 
the Fipiams deserve fall ced <f having obiamed hold 
of ome of the greai secreis of fixing the aitention on an 
object. or making it. in other words. mteresting. Thev 
kmow the art of concealing the end as long as possble. 
What would our novelists do without the use of this 
machmerx! How dull would life itself be if the future 
The lads. havime chewed a sufficent quaniiy of the 
waiter is poured on, the whole vellowishlookmg dud 
