3G6 SCENES IN T I-I E PACIFIC. 
by (he tribes farther North and East. Lat the unfortunate 
creatures have little ability to devise and manufacture them. 
The more valuable found among them consist of pieces of 
carved wood worn as ear-rings, shells strung and worn as 
beads, and bands of feathers bound around the head. The 
latter are made of the tail feathers of the golden-winged 
woodpecker, and are very beautiful. Some of them contain 
four or five hundred feathers, and as only two can be obtained 
from one bird, it will be observed that the labor of gathering 
the materials of these bandeaux is so great as to make them 
highly prized by the natives. It is worthy of remark that 
bandeaux of a like kind are worn by the Hawaiians. 
Divided as they are into small tribes, a portion of their time 
is spent in fighting among themselves on account of encroach¬ 
ments upon each other’s territories. Such occurrences are the 
most stirring and notable events of their lives. Their stu¬ 
pidity, insensibility, ignorance, inconstancy, slavery to appe¬ 
tite, excessive sloth and laziness, being absorbed for the time 
in the stir and din of night-watchings and battle, give them 
a new existence; not one creditable to human nature, but one 
that breaks the monotony of their beastly existence. On all 
other occasions, they seem to have no idea of industry, no 
rational and inventive thought, only one strong and controll¬ 
ing impulse, the incessant love of amusements of the most 
useless and brutal character. 
When want presses them into some means of sustaining 
life, they hunt the deer, elk, and grisly bear, take fish from 
the streams and ihe ocean, and gather wild fruits, acorns, 
seeds, herbs and roots. The seeds they bruise into meal, of 
which they make gruel, pudding, &c. Sometimes they make it 
into balls, and dry them for future use. With these vegeta¬ 
bles they eat fish, deer, elk, rabbits, geese, ducks, quails, &c. 
The whale occasionally lodges on their shores; an event 
followed by great rejoicings and feastings. The blubber is a 
great luxury among them. They cook the flesh of this ani¬ 
mal in holes dug in the ground and curbed up with stone like 
