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pofed, that above a tenth part of the inhabitants were 1778. 
r* February* 
prefent. 
The common drefs, both of the women and of the men, 
has been already defcribed. The firft have often much 
larger pieces of cloth wrapped round them, reaching from 
juft below the breafts to the hams, or lower; and feveral 
were feen with pieces thrown loofely about the Ihoulders, 
which covered the greateft part of the body; but the chil¬ 
dren, when very young, are quite naked. They wear no¬ 
thing upon the head; but the hair, in both fexes, is cut in 
different forms ; and the general fafhion, efpecially among 
the women, is, to have it long before, and fhort behind. 
The men often had it cut, or fliaved, on each fide, in fuch a 
manner, that the remaining part, in fome meafure, re- 
fembles the creft of their caps or helmets, formerly de¬ 
fcribed. Both fexes, however, feem very carelefs about 
their hair, and have nothing like combs to drefs it with. 
Inftances of wearing it, in a lingular manner, were fome- 
times met with among the men, who twift it into a num¬ 
ber of feparate parcels, like the tails of a wig, each about 
the thicknefs of a finger; though the greateft part of thefe, 
which are fo long that they reach far down the back, we 
obferved, were artificially fixed upon the head, over their 
own hair *. 
It is remarkable, that, contrary to the general practice of 
the illands we had hitherto difcovered in the Pacific Ocean, 
the people of the Sandwich Illands have not their ears per¬ 
forated ; nor have they the leaft idea of wearing ornaments 
* The print of Horn Ifland, which we meet with in Mr. Dalrymple’s account of Le 
Maire and Schouten’s voyage, reprefents fome of the natives of that ifland with fuch 
long tails, hanging from their heads, as are here defcribed. See Dalrympies Voyages to 
the South Pacific , VoT. ii. p. 58. 
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