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hup, which is of a sweet and pleasant 
taste. 
At the urgent request of the natives, 
I now adopted their dress. Having but 
one pair of trowsers and a shirt left, I 
laid them by for bad weather, and put 
on the costume of a Mulgrave Islander. 
This dress, if it may be so called, con¬ 
sists in a broad belt fastened round the 
waist, from which is suspended two 
broad tassels. The belt is made from 
the leaves of the bup tree, and very in¬ 
geniously braided, to which is attached 
the tassels, which are made of a coars¬ 
er material, being the bark of a small 
vine, in their language called aht-aht. 
When the dress is worn, one of the 
tassels hangs before and the other be¬ 
hind. The sun, as I expected, burned 
my skin very much; which the natives 
could not account for, as nothing of the 
kind ever happened among themselves. 
One day there was seen approaching 
a number of canoes, which we found 
were loaded with fish for the chiefs, and 
to my great joy, Hussey was one of the 
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