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ture ; when the sun once more gilded the eastern sky 
with his presence, his first rays illumined our pas- 
sage to the shore, and we found on our arrival many of 
the natives anxiously waiting for our approach. We 
soon commenced our bartering again, but we found that 
many of our friends had been very industrious during 
the night, for they appeared with their faces and parts of 
their bodies freshly and curiously painted, some of them 
having an oblique line drawn across the face, with one 
side of it painted red and the other white. Some of 
them had the line of division drawn directly across, 
having the upper part of the face red and the lower 
white. Their hair also was filled with a fine powder of 
either of these colours, which was also newly frizzled 
out into an enormous mass, its area being at least two 
feet across. Some of them had the holes in their noses 
filled with the stem of a flower, the flower resting on the 
cheek, while others employed for the same purpose a 
sprig of some sweet scented shrub. They wore bracelets 
of shells on their arms, and they had transverse sections 
of shells, which formed hoops, fitted on the upper arm 
in such numbers as to reach from the elbow to near the 
shoulder. Some of them also wore rings or hoops on 
the same part, that were formed of tortoise-shell, which 
had been made from its flat pieces. These being placed 
close together on the arm, a considerable number was 
required “ to make up a show/' and I counted on some 
of them above twenty pieces. 
They wore no kind of clothing whatsoever, and they 
traded with great good-will and fairness. All of them were 
