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Marini, he showed less income than there was in reality, and
he did not show the entire amount collected in the pots. The
natives like the first one because he did not harm them and
did not lord over them. But they hated the second, and several
times during our stay on the island burned his hut, by which
they expressed their indignation against him.

The recovered queen, Kahummanna, visited us on the 29th,
and brought 20 pigs and a large quantity of fruit and vege-
tables as a gift to each sloop. She wore a black velvet
dress, but the whole court retinue accompanying her, con-
sisting of eight women, had no other clothes except a kind of
skirt covering the body and made of a piece of the above des-
cribed cloth of a bright yellow, green, or crimson color, which
was wrapped around the body several times. Their hair, in
the back, was braided into two braids, and in front, cut short
and smeared with lime near the forehead. During
the dances, which consisted of various body movements and
gestures, the men sand and kept time with a short stick on a
long one, which produced very unpleasant sounds, and either
high or low tones depending on their length. The women some-
times dressed up even more, and in such a case, put on over
the ordinary pau, a festooned multicolored one. In such a
case, they wear on their heads and round their neck, garlands
woven from red, yellow, and black feathers, and near the shoulders
in the back were tied banana leaves. They wrap in ivy the feet
above the ankle, and the hands above the wrist. Dancing,