dancing, and various sports, and the whole
closing with a procession, composed of kings,
queens, and chiefs, in all the splendour of
dress and decorations which they can com-
mand.

First in a procession, which I am now to
describe, came Kamehamalu, a favourite queen
of king Liho-Liho, in a dress consisting only
of a scarlet silk pau, and a coronet of feathers.
She was seated in the midst of a large whale
boat, which was neatly constructed and beau-
tifully ornamented, and mounted upon a plat-
form, twenty-five or thirty feet in length, and
twelve or fifteen in width. This platform was
formed of light poles, interwoven in the man-
ner of a basket, and carpeted with rich broad-
cloths, and the finest specimens of native
cloth, or tapa. The boat being firmly fixed
on the platform, the whole was borne on the
heads of seventy or eighty men, who moved
in almost a solid body. Many of these men
vere completely concealed from view, but
hose who were visible, wore the feathered
loaks and helmets before mentioned, which
dded greatly to the splendour of the scene.
n the boat, behind the queen, stood a chief,
upporting over her head a large umbrella of
carlet silk, decorated with gilding, fringes,
nd tassels. At one end of the boat stood
alaimoku, the prime minister, and at the
her Naihe, the national orator, richly clad

ard called a kahile. The kahile is a s thirty feet in height, to which small branches are attached, in circles, a upper half. These stems are cove beautiful scarlet feathers, which gracefully in the air, as the kahiles aloft, have rather an imposing and appearance. The lower part of th covered with rings of ivory and torto finely wrought and highly polishe was the queen, seated in her car, on the heads of her loyal subjects; very heavens rang with the shouts of titude.

Much in the same style, excep their seats were canoes instead of w appeared Kinau, and Kekauonohi; young prince and princess, Kauike Nahienaena, in the native dress, pau of scarlet silk, had for their ac tion, four field bedsteads, fastened and ornamented with draperies of fo native cloth. These equipages, a others which to us would seem equall were surrounded by persons splendid bearing kahiles, umbrellas, &c. wh great variety to the scene; and they quently met by companies of male males, dancing, singing, and shoutin

The dresses of some of the ladie on this occasion were expensive, but suppose rather inconvenient. "One

told, "wore seventy-two yards of kerseymere, of double fold; one-half being scarlet and the other orange. It was wrapped round her figure, till her arms were supported horizontally by the bulk; and the remainder was formed into a train supported by persons appointed for the purpose."

"But where," you will inquire, "was the king, during all this parade?" Instead of taking his place in the procession with the dignity and pomp which his rank demanded, he was seated on a horse without a saddle, himself nearly destitute of clothing, and what was far worse than all, in a state of intoxication, that rendered his seat very insecure. Around him were his chosen friends, like him, on horseback, and intoxicated; and hurrying from place to place, without order or object. In this manner did the king honour the memory of his deceased father.

In order to defray the expenses of frequent exhibitions like this, you may naturally suppose the nobility of the islands must possess a tolerable share of wealth; and indeed they do. It is accumulated by snatching from the poor their hardly-earned pittance, and by supplying foreign ships with sandal wood, for which they receive money, or such articles of commerce as they desire. Since they have begun, in any degree, to adopt the European node of dress, they take pleasure in collect

and goatly wardrobes Notwithstand.