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dress, stepped across the quarter-deck with a stately but un¬ 
embarrassed air, and taking a chaplet of flowers from her own 
brows, placed it on Lord Byron’s head as a sign of welcome, 
and then went below to visit Liliah. When she again ap¬ 
peared, she was clothed in a gown given her by her friend, 
and her scanty Tappa wrapper was delivered to an attendant. 
Were the visit of the Sandwich Island chiefs to England 
to produce nothing more than the desire of clothing, the 
benefit to the people would be great indeed. Besides all 
the decencies, and the virtues that spring from the decen¬ 
cies of life, the additional incitement to industry which the 
desire of clothing affords is of incalculable value in a state 
of incipient civilization; and for the ladies, as 
“ Every want that stimulates the breast 
Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest,” 
we doubt not that their happiness will receive a large in¬ 
crease when gowns and petticoats, caps and bonnets, scarfs 
and reticules, become the permanent fashions at Oahu, and 
a weekly assortment of millinery shall find its way to Ahido, 
Karakakua, Lahaina, or Tauii. 
At five o’clock our boats came back, making so good a 
report of the bay that the captain seems inclined to return 
thither to complete his water and fresh provisions, though 
at present he is too anxious to reach Oahu with his charge, 
