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Hido will scarcely lose by the change, for its ingenious arti¬ 
ficers have only to turn their industry to the construction of 
more regular vessels. Each Island, and each division, has 
some peculiar article, in the manufacture of which its in¬ 
habitants excel. The mats of Onehow and those of Taui 
are incomparably softer and finer than those of the other 
Islands. The women in the neighbourhood of Woraray are 
said to be more dexterous than others in preparing the bark 
of the broussonettia for cloth, and stamping on their tapas 
the ingenious figures which adorn them. The occupations 
of the chiefs were making the fishing-tackle, arms, war- 
cloaks, and helmets; but the wars of Tamehameha, which 
introduced gunpowder, the progress of civilization, which 
has made them acquainted with money, commerce, and the 
arts of reading and writing, have produced a change of 
occupation among the chiefs; and it is probable that the 
ornamented palioe, the pearl fish-hook, and the splendid 
war-cloak, will soon be more easily found in the cabinets 
of Europe than among the islands of the Pacific. 
We reached Oahu too late on the evening of the 8th to 
anchor that night, but early on the 9th we had the pleasure 
of meeting our shipmates, and the excellent Ivaraimoku, in 
apparently good health, and were received by them with 
the same hospitality which we had experienced on our first 
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