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the stone implements is beautiful; the carving of the an¬ 
cient ava bowls, the formation of the canoes, and the de¬ 
corations of the war-clubs and daggers, show that good 
workmen will make good work in spite of their tools: they 
have now learnt to prefer, and no wonder, the iron we bring 
them, for it prodigiously shortens their labour. 
May 20.—We have at length heard the lament at a 
death. To us it appears strange that hired weepers should 
be called in to assist the expression of grief so natural on 
the loss of what is dear to us. But the custom has been so 
general, that we must seek its origin in the natural desire 
for sympathy that possesses every human heart. The Irish 
cabin is filled with the mourning ullooloo, as the Hawaiian 
hut with the wailing oo-hee-oo-hee; and the pageantry of 
a European funeral only differs from these, in that our 
habits require us to suppress the expression of sorrow, and 
we hire mutes to look mourning. The ancients, i. e. the 
classical ancients, were near enough to the youth of the 
world to have retained some of the earliest habits of man¬ 
kind, and the Greeks at least have left us testimonies, in 
writing and in sculpture, that they also loved to display 
rather than conceal the most natural and pious of our 
emotions. To bewail the dead is here a duty; and the 
women sit down and lament, then rise up and attend to 
