Three Accounts of the Vasil'ev-Shismarev Expedition of 1819-1822

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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 vegetables as a gift to each sloop. She wore a black velvet dress, but the whole court retinue accompanying her, consisting of eight women, had no other clothes except a kind of skirt covering the body and made of a piece of the above described 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 sometimes 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,