130 POLYNESIAN RESEAIICHES. 
other islands of Polynesia. The demand will increase 
in the exact proportion in which industry shall augment 
the produce of the islands, and the property of their 
inhabitants. This is a consideration which, though con¬ 
fessedly very inferior to many, ought not to be disre¬ 
garded by those who take an interest in the transfor¬ 
mation of society which is now attending Missionary 
efforts in various parts of the world, but particularly in 
such countries as Africa, Madagascar, and the islands of 
the Pacific. 
Shoes and hats are not much less in demand than 
Cottons or woollens; and these also must, for the pre¬ 
sent, and probably for many years to come, be supplied 
from England or America. Although the light hats, 
made with a fine sort of grass, or the bark of a tree, 
are, in our estimation, remarkably well adapted for the 
climate, most of the men, making any pretensions to 
respectability, strive to possess an English hat. We 
were for a long time surprised at the partiality of the 
natives for woollen cloth, and hardly knew how to 
account for it, as it does not altogether arise from its 
being more durable. At one time, no article of dress 
was more acceptable to the men than a thick shaggy great 
coat, which, to us, it was quite oppressive even to 
behold. Many purchased with avidity a thick blanket, 
which they would wear as an ahubuu over the shoulders, 
or a pareu round the waist. Frequently, when we 
have been burdened with the lightest crape or nankeen 
dress, a native, by no means deficient in corpulency, 
would walk several miles with an ordinary great coat, 
without seeming to experience more than usual incon¬ 
venience. I never heard them complain of the heat, 
and the cause of their apparent insensibility to its 
