THROUGH HAWAII. 
85 
towards the land, and at nine A. m. the boat was low¬ 
ered down, and I proceeded to the shore. On my way 
I met the governor Kuakini, and Messrs. Goodrich and 
Harwood, who were coming off in the governor’s boat. 
We returned together to the shore, where Ī was gladly 
received by Messrs. Thurston and Bishop, whom I 
found waiting to proceed on the tour of the island. 
In the afternoon, a party of strolling musicians and 
dancers arrived at Kairua. About four o’clock they 
came, followed by crowds of people, and arranged 
themselves on a fine sandy beach, in front of one ot 
the governor’s houses, where they exhibited a native 
dance, called hura arciapctpa. 
The five musicians first seated themselves in a line 
on the ground, and spread a piece of folded cloth on 
the sand before them. Their instrument was a large 
calabash, or rather two, one of an oval shape about 
three feet high, the other perfectly round, very neatly 
fastened to it, having also an aperture about three 
inches in diameter at the top. Each musician held his 
instrument before him with both hands, and produced 
his music by striking it on the ground, where he had 
laid the piece of cloth, and beating it with his fingers, 
or the palms of his hands. As soon as they began to 
sound their calabashes, the dancer, a young man, about 
the middle stature, advanced through the opening 
crowd. His jet-black hair hung in loose and flowing 
ringlets down his naked shoulders; his necklace was 
made of a vast number of strings of nicely braided 
human hair, tied together behind, while a paraoa (an 
ornament made of a whale’s tooth) hung pendent from 
it on his breast; his wrists were ornamented with 
bracelets, formed of polished tusks of the hog, and 
