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not right. However, on his landing, many thousands of the 
natives, who had assembled to receive him, prostrated them¬ 
selves before him, and began to groan and bewail their king 
and friend: their lamentations accompanied him to the 
house of Liliah’s father, who is governor of Maui, and con¬ 
tinued at intervals all night. 
Early in the morning we began watering, and a number 
of natives attended on the beach and floated our casks 
through the surf, coming and going, with great good hu¬ 
mour and dexterity. We went ashore in the course of 
the morning, and accompanied Lord Byron in his visit to 
the sister of lolani, the young princess Naheinaheina, who 
resides with Olimeme, Liliah’s father, for the present. She 
was accompanied by an American missionary, who is both 
schoolmaster and interpreter. Liliah had already clothed 
her and her attendants in black, but had disfigured her very 
intelligent, though scarcely pretty face, by dressing her in a 
huge mob cap. 
The chiefs all surrounded her, seated on mats of excel¬ 
lent workmanship, and dressed in the fashion of the country, 
i. e. the maro and the mantle: the former resembles the 
waist-cloth of the Egyptian statues; the latter is worn over 
one shoulder, so as to leave the right arm free. Their 
general corpulence is very striking to a stranger. It is pro- 
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