. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. d muslin, and in this condition presents a very cu-rious appearance. The office of barber to the King was such a sacred one that theroyal barbers were tabu, or forbidden to do anything else. They couldnot even feed, dress, or undress themselves, or do anything whateverwith the hands which were to be used solely on the royal yet there
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. d muslin, and in this condition presents a very cu-rious appearance. The office of barber to the King was such a sacred one that theroyal barbers were tabu, or forbidden to do anything else. They couldnot even feed, dress, or undress themselves, or do anything whateverwith the hands which were to be used solely on the royal yet there were plenty of men who coveted this honorable occupa-tion in spite of its manifest inconveniences. They are a polite people—at least we are told so, and certainlyhave seen nothing to lead us tothink otherwise. The hotel-keepersays the Feejeean boys make ex-cellent table servants, and the na-tive policemen along the streetsseem fully equal to any we haveever seen outside of a European orAmerican city. Like all Polyne-sians, the Feejeeans are very cer-emonious, and great sticklers foretiquette. The chiefs and noblesare surrounded with ceremony, andone needs to be as careful in ap-proaching them as in approachingthe Queen of England or the Em-. AN ACCOMPLISHED LIAR. peror of Russia. Here in Suva most of the peoj)le have adopted European dress, ora modification of the native one, but back in the mountains they adhereto their primitive garments. These are strips of cloth around the waist,and owing to this enormous array of hair I have just told about they 160 THE BOY TRAVELLEKS IN AUSTRALASIA, sleep on a pilloAv consisting of a stick like a thick lath, with legs fouror five inches long. It is like taking a section of a two-inch plank afoot long and four inches wide, and resting ones neck on the Feejeean pillow is by no means an inconvenient weapon in a fight,and very handy to have in the house. It is said the Feejeeans look upon lying as an accomphshment,and I have been tol
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