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European frock-coat, without shirt, waistcoat, or trowsers: 
they are armed with muskets. 
Although Ivaraimoku has lately built a handsome stone 
house, we could not help applauding the feeling that deter¬ 
mined him to receive us in a native structure, differing only 
in size from that of the people. It was situated about half 
a mile from the beach, in a cultivated inclosure surrounded 
by a high fence of wicker-work. The ridge-pole was sup¬ 
ported by pillars thirty feet high, and the length fifty feet, by 
twenty-five in breadth. Four doors, opening to the cardinal 
points, admitted light and air:—the south door was that ap¬ 
pointed for our entry. On an elevated space at the northern 
end of the house the young king and princess were placed 
on a cane sofa. They were dressed in European suits of 
mourning, and seated on a beautiful feather garment, which 
some of the affectionate natives had woven for the princess 
Naheinaheina, in hopes that she would wear it as a pau* 
on the return of her brother Riho Rilio from England. 
However, the little girl has been so long under the tuition 
of the missionaries, that she has thoroughly imbibed all the 
womanly feelings of civilised decency, and absolutely refuses 
* A cloth which the native women wear round the waist as the men do 
the maro: it is their only covering. That in question was of red feathers, 
spotted with black and yellow: it "was one yard wide and nine long, and cost 
one year’s time in making. 
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