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hitherto few men have grown up with a full set, it having 
been the fashion to extract a tooth or two to commemorate 
the death of a friend or chieftain. Our friend Bold, himself, 
had four of his front teeth sacrificed to the great Tame- 
hameha; and the operation must have been severe : he 
was laid on his back, and his mouth filled with tapa; a 
sharp instrument was placed at the root of the teeth, and at 
one blow they were all knocked out at once ! Tattooing is 
often used as another mark of mourning, though it is some¬ 
times done for ornament alone. The ladies tattoo the tips 
of their tongues in memory of their departed friends. On 
the death of Tamehameha all the chiefs had his name and 
the date of his death tattoed on their arms. The women 
are in youth beautifully formed, but become corpulent as 
they grow old; they are good-humoured and affectionate, 
and walk and move gracefully. Of this they do not appear 
unconscious; and they are extremely fond of contemplating 
themselves in a glass, and almost every one possesses a 
small mirror. They generally wear their hair long, and 
flowing over their shoulders, and the chiefs keep it very 
clean. INTot so the lower people, who, although they keep 
their huts very neat, yet are dirty in their persons, and have 
both vermin and a variety of cutaneous diseases, especially 
the itch, for which, however, the missionaries have begun to 
