. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . spearsand daggers of hardened wood. With such toolsas these they felled trees, from which they builttheir temples, canoes and barges, dwellings, manu-factured cloth and cordage, made walls of hewnstone, built roads and fish-ponds, and tilled thesoil. They wove mats, cloths, sails, and fromthe inner bark of the paper mulberry beat out athin cloth called kapa, which they sometimesornamented with figures and made in differentcolours. They ate the flesh of nearly everything livingin the sea, as well as that of swine, dogs,
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . spearsand daggers of hardened wood. With such toolsas these they felled trees, from which they builttheir temples, canoes and barges, dwellings, manu-factured cloth and cordage, made walls of hewnstone, built roads and fish-ponds, and tilled thesoil. They wove mats, cloths, sails, and fromthe inner bark of the paper mulberry beat out athin cloth called kapa, which they sometimesornamented with figures and made in differentcolours. They ate the flesh of nearly everything livingin the sea, as well as that of swine, dogs, andfowls, yams, sweet potatoes, fruits, berries, andseveral kinds of seaweed, besides the staple oftheir foods, poi^ a sort of fermented paste madefrom taro, a bulbous root very similar to an Indianturnip. They drank an intoxicating beveragemade from the sweet root of the ti plant, and astupefying liquor from the aiva root. They didtheir cooking by wrapping their food in ti leavesand placing it in an underground oven. Theirhousehold utensils consisted of shells, A PICTURESQUE PEOPLE. 33 calabashes of different sizes and shapes, andplatters made of wood. They lighted their homeswith the oily nuts of the ku-kui^ or candlenut-tree. The dress of the Hawaiian consisted simply ofa narrow maro fastened around the loins for themale, a pau or skirt reaching from the waist tothe knees for the female. These skirts were inva-riably made of five thicknesses of kapa, and whenthe weather was cool a short cape was thrown overthe shoulders. Generally the heads of both sexeswere uncovered. Besides the maro the king wore on state occa-sions the royal mantle, the mamo^ so called forthe little sea-bird that furnished the feathers tomake it. This mantle reached from the neck tothe ankle, and it took over ten thousand feathersto make it. As each bird had but two of thekind of feathers desired, one under either wing, ittook at least five thousand of them to afford thematerial for this costly
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