llei-p, too, are some ornamental cai-vings fronil the 

 Friendly Islands, which, as the work of mere savages, 

 are worthy of notice. 

 'Jlie carving in all is 

 most ingeniously exe- 

 cuted. 'J'hey are used 

 to contain cava, an ex- 

 Iiilirating liquor, pre- 

 pared in a way which 

 we will not trust our- 

 selves to describe. 



]n cases nineteen and twenty are some whimsical dis- 

 tortions of the human fomi, imitated in foatliers gau- 

 dily tinted. The grotesc^ue head- 

 piece, here given, will, with its 

 strangely exaggerated features, 

 exhibit a tolerable idea of the 

 skill possessed by the natives of 

 the Sandwich Islands, but whe- 

 ther they liSve been intended for. 

 idols, or are merely the works 

 of art" belonging to that coun- 

 try, cannot be distinctly ascer- 

 tained. If the latter supposition 

 be correct, our (i ilrays and Cruik- 

 shanks may indeed " hide their 

 diminished heads,"' as no carica- 

 ture that ever emanated from the 

 pencil of either, equalled the one now before us. An 

 uninformed observer might well suppose one of Gulli- 

 ver's Brohdis;7iag tribe — so immortalised by Swift — had 

 undergone decapitation, and that this was tlie trophy of 

 the executioner. 



In the twenty-second case, on the second shelf, tliere 

 are some pe- 

 culiar wooden 

 bowls,with fan- 

 tastic figures as 

 ornamental sup- 

 porters. These 

 are from the 



