The Night of Heathenism, 2 1 3 
were separate sleeping rooms for the young men, out these 
would be found only in some of the roomier and better 
houses ; generally, the young men slept at a large building, 
set apart for them in each village. The articles in use for 
daily diet, were numerous, and were composed of vegetables, 
fish, fruit, and soups. This latter item included turtle-soup, 
for turtles abounded around the coast. The beverages in 
use, were water, cocoa-nut milk, and Kara, a narcotic drink, 
known also in Fiji, as Yaquona, It was customary for the 
people to elevate the drinking vessel several inches above 
the lips, and to pour a stream slowly down the throat, it 
being considered wrong to put the vessel to the lips. The 
Yaquona was prepared and drunk, with many curious obser- 
vances, and when taken in any but very moderate quantities, 
produced a kind of drunken stupor. 
Feasts, public and private, were very common among the 
people. At these, especially if attended by chiefs, great 
profusion and waste would be witnessed. Yams, taro^ 
turtles, sweet pudding by the ton, and Yaquona^ were pro- 
vided with which to regale the visitors. Not unfrequently, 
however, it happened that the guests of to-day's feast, were 
treacherously murdered during the night,— killed, cooked, 
and served up, to be eaten by the guests of to-morrow. 
Visits of ceremony were frequently paid by chiefs to one 
another, and after being received with much flattery, many 
days would be occupied in treating and feasting them ; the 
slightest breach of etiquette, however, would give rise to an 
enmity which found expression only in murder and blood, 
even though the looked-for opportunity were years in 
coming. 
They practised painting on their bodies ; and dyed their 
hair with red, blue, and white dyes. The women were tat- 
tooed before marriage j but the men were exempted from 
