FRIENDLY ISLANDS. 
a girdle e or cord; “Gt is double — ss hangs an like 
middle e leg: the upper 
wrap round the fhoulders. € 
‘of both fexes are — necklaces, and ie elets eI bones, 
mother of pearl, e €. 
ar on their fingers ee rings m 
pe oa gn their ‘ears about the fize of a 
have alfo a curious apron made of the 
a manner as to 
‘It udded 
vered with r ed es fo as 
‘to have a pleafing effect. “The are: very attentive to per- 
fonal cleanlinefs, and therefore frequently bathe in the 
rub themfelves all over with 
that they pour it in great qua 
Bode ers, and rub the ir bodies © over with it. need 
ment of the women is chiefly of the domettic kind, ee the 
ee ee of their cloth is wholly configned to their care. 
This cloth is made of - different degrees of finenefs: the 
coarfer fort receives no ) pattern, and of the finett fort, they 
Their cloth in ge- 
f the fame materials as at Otaheite, 
will-refift water for fome time ; and they have a method of 
glazing it, which renders it in this rey preferable to that 
of oe it ree ar man era various forts of mat- 
‘tin ne seeps and ufed ge- 
Among ie nfeful cree i have various forts 
e fame vegetable materials with 
t 
durable, but beautiful, being’ generally 
rent aa nd ftudded wit 
als or bones. The provinée of the men is mo 
“Hious and pagal than that ‘of the women ; the obj ects of 
d ‘about in 
def. order” Se ae coe a feem to give ao trou- 
ble. In building their, houfes, ingenious as they are in 
‘othér refpeCis, they difplay little tafte. Thofe of the 
“lower people are poor huts, ‘{mail, and yeas fufficient to 
‘défend them from “the ‘weather 
‘are larger and mére comfortable, but. aod inferio r tow 
“flodr-is~ raiféd. with foal ~fmoothed, covered with cafe ge of 
oe 
thick. matting, and kept very clean. 0 
7 “ah 
urpote oLr‘aw 
“bent into the form 
"the ‘mafter ‘and. miftref sof a family of-the fa- 
“and women 
3 the eas 
‘apart from each “ot 
~wher.the family is ae to iene: ae. Their whole 
‘their meals ‘they- aah nothing but 
of: the better - cio 
eee, : 
thi Mistee mat, - 
“of a femicircle, envelopes Space 4 in which ~ 
furniture Sent of a ‘bowl:or two, .a few -gourd Oa~ 
nut fthells, {mall woaden: fteols, which ferve fe allows 
and, ‘perhaps, a large ftool ‘fer the chief, or mafter of the 
amily, to At upon. --As they are fond of living much in 
eee open air, ‘they are lefs attentive to ‘ornamental archi-. 
t 
ur 
‘cools ae ufe in the co 
boats are ee or rather thick adzes, of a aoa black 
ftone, that abounds at T'oofoa; a 
any regular progreffion, re- 
commonly to fix notes, but incapable of producing 
ete diftinguithable by the ears of Europeans. The he 
are a joint of bamboo, .clofe at both ends, with a e- 
neath, and four others, two of which, and ‘one of the § fr ft 
only, are ufed in playing. They apply the thumb of the 
left hand to Gow ee left nottril, ‘and blow into the hole at 
ae _— a pleaing, yet fmple 
mutic, which ¢ they va vary much more than one would thit ct t: 
produce an hollow found, not. quite 
anempty ca Their weapons are aah of different forts, . 
an oy ornamented, f{pears, and darts. They have alfo- 
bows and eee defigned merely for amufement, fuch’ as’. 
iiccrag at birds ; - t for military -purpofes.. ‘Their 
ools are ey two wee ae but only four or ae inches 
ie and nearly four broad, ‘bending i = ‘the e;: with 
four ftrong legs and cireular feet, all-m tas 700d: neatly 
polifhed and iometimes inlaid with bits. wits 
The greateft' part of their vegetable diet confifis of yams, 
plantains, and cocoa-nuts. ‘The chief articles of their-ani- 
mal food are hogs, s, frfh, and all forts of -{hell-fith.; 
ie the lower peo i ne rats. Their ‘food is generally 
drefled by baking, im the fame-manner as at Otaheite. At 
iif geadee or ‘the } ul “f. 
women are not exchided ‘froni‘eat-- 
_ ther te are. certain Pcie or: ranks 
ote 
& & 
ng. ea nae Sie 4 ; but 
eems.not to be hx 
eaeresee? fe = 
ch I ngs ina different ae which makes 
fic of their flutes, ‘by 
-playing..en -thefe of adifereat: ee but . their -dancing is 
much : 
