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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
their ava is prepared, with the dooe dooe *, all required and 
received the care of the husbandman. 
The climate does not necessarily demand a great supply 
of clothing; yet, when the Islands were discovered, the na¬ 
tives possessed the art of preparing cloth of various kinds 
from the bark of the paper mulberry f, and the cultivation 
of the plant was carefully attended to. The grounds where 
it is grown resemble our osier grounds: the stools are kept 
above six feet apart; not above four or five branches from 
each are allowed to grow, and the top bud of these is fre¬ 
quently broken, to force the shoot to a proper thickness. 
Besides this manufacture, in which great skill and taste 
were often employed, the Islanders wore very beautiful 
mats of the fibres of various palms; they made beautiful 
cloaks, caps, and other ornaments, of feathers ijl. The pat¬ 
terns in which they stamped their cloth w ith colours §, and 
* Kukui; Otaheitan, dooe dooe; aleurites triloba, or candle nut. The nuts, 
strung on a thin withe, slightly baked, and the shell removed, burn one after 
another, and serve for candles; they are heart-shaped, about the size of a wal¬ 
nut. The inner bark affords a dark red dye: the charcoal is used for paint¬ 
ing; and the tree yields a gum with which they dress their cloth. 
*f* Broussonettia Papyrifera. 
t The birds which furnished the feathers were, the Drepanis Vestiarius, 
the Nectarina Niger, and Nectarina Byronensis. 
§ These were procured from various plants. A fine red dye was prepared 
from the Cordia Orientalis, called Etua and Kou in Hawaii, and Eton, 
or Etau, in Otaheite. The wood is sweet smelling, and is used to scent the 
cloth. 
