. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 'fonr^an floifsrs. Next comes the account William ^rariiUM", a man whose mime is liofiorcd ;is that of an ax-cnratc observer hy all who stiulv the Enslern Pacific. His coinpulsorv residence of several years on the grraip has -iver. iis perha|)s the best acconiil of the daiU^ life of that early time that we ha\e.' Of Tono^aii r--" ^ " A^^^^^^^^^^^^ iiiiiiiiiiiilii^ housebtiildiii';^ his words are few but tn (he poiiil a,ii(1 may l)e (piotcd in full: /''?;o^ J
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 'fonr^an floifsrs. Next comes the account William ^rariiUM", a man whose mime is liofiorcd ;is that of an ax-cnratc observer hy all who stiulv the Enslern Pacific. His coinpulsorv residence of several years on the grraip has -iver. iis perha|)s the best acconiil of the daiU^ life of that early time that we ha\e.' Of Tono^aii r--" ^ " A^^^^^^^^^^^^ iiiiiiiiiiiilii^ housebtiildiii';^ his words are few but tn (he poiiil a,ii(1 may l)e (piotcd in full: /''?;o^ J^''^'\ 1inii>c^, f.'.very man kiunvs lo Iniilil a heu^H:. lm( wliose laiHinfss ii is liavc cliicll\^ to erect iieu,-cs mi inarly's. ceiiseerated lionses. and thvcr HiiRS lor cliii'lH. The general lunn their hotrsi%s is nl,u>iig, ratlier apprcaeliiis;.; to an oval. il;e two ciionn-^. times more. The chief art in hiiihHng a house con>isls in tin* lieanis. t\ strongly, with phiit of different colours, made of ihe liiisk of tlie eoeoaoiul. in sucdi a way as tcj \oak wrx oriiameiital ; the colours, wliieli are black, red and yellow, being tastefully disiiosed. The thateli of the superior houses is made of the <lrietl leaves of the »;ar eane, and wliieh will last seven or eight \isars without reipiiring repair. The thatch of the eominon houses is uuule of mailing formed of the leaves of the eoroa aoit trci!^. and which lasts about two or three years: but lieiiye niiudi easier to make than the other, it isuuire frecpiently irsed. The floorings is thus nuide : the ground, being raised alionl a foot, is beaten ihiwn hard, and covered with the leaves of the eocoaouU tret, grass, or leaves of tln^ ih tree (///e/viy/i//,, rduiis): over this is laid a bleached uuittitpg, unule of tlie youjig leiox-s of the coeoanut tree. The house cemsisls. as it were, hut of one apartuienb but which is sid)\aded oecosionally by .
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