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learnt the use of artillery and musketry, and had much im¬ 
proved in the building of their forts. Many of the chiefs had 
also erected houses of stone, and some frames of houses had 
been brought as lumber in the American ships, which were 
readily used; although the convenience of the native dwell¬ 
ings, and the ease with which they are put up, will probably 
prevent their being ever entirely abandoned. Clothes, too, 
of the European fashion, had been partially adopted; but it 
was seldom that a whole suit was worn by any one man. 
The king’s guards had nothing but a dark-coloured frock 
coat, and the native maro, which is a cloth a good deal re¬ 
sembling in form and size that we see on Egyptian statues. 
Some of the chiefs appeared in shirts, others in shirts and 
waistcoats, but few adopted trowsers. The English lan¬ 
guage had been used in aid of their own vocabulary for 
such things as were new to them, and was also spoken by 
a good many of the young chiefs. Hence, on Vancouver’s 
arrival, communication between the English and natives 
was much easier, and greater confidence and good will were 
exercised. 
Captains Portlock and Dixon, 1786, were the first fol¬ 
lowers of. Cook: they, being on a trading voyage to the 
North-west coast for furs, procured refreshments at Oahu; 
and about the same time La Perouse visited Maui: from 
