food, of which the higher classes e large a proportion, consisted. They animal food, excepting hogs, dogs, for and fish; and their vegetables were sweet potato, bread fruit, cocoa m cane, plantain, &c. The mission found water and musk melons in al the seeds having been introduced ships.

The dogs in these islands are very small-they are domesticated us, and those which are to be eate tened on vegetables. Their flesh in the same manner as that of the h is baked in the following way. A ing been dug in the ground, abou deep, and two, or two and a half f the bottom is covered with flat sto these a quantity of dry wood is plac having been kindled, is covered stones. When the stones have be ciently heated, the upper layer is and the articles to be baked, well v large plantain leaves, are placed on stones. Water is thrown over them a steam; the stones which were rem the top are replaced, and the whole covered with earth. The food thu soon cooked by the heat and steam, with avidity by the natives.

Fish is frequently eaten raw, times alive, by these people. M

was seated on the ground, with a large wooden tray in her lap. On this a monstrous cuttle fish had just been placed, fresh from the sea, and in all its life and vigour. The queen had taken it up in both her hands, and brought its body to her mouth; and on a single application of her teeth, the black juices and blood with which it was filled, gushed over her face and neck, while the long sucking arms of the ish, in the convulsive paroxysm of the operaion, were twisting and writhing about her head. Occupied as both hands and mouth were, she could only give us the salutation of nod. It was the first time either of us had een her majesty; and we soon took our dearture, leaving her, as we found her, in the ll enjoyment of the luxurious luncheon."

The taro is the chief article of food among e poorer people, as I have already told you; d indeed it serves the double purpose of ead and vegetables for the whole nation. It a species of the plant which in many parts America is known as the Indian turnip. e root of the taro, on being thoroughly ked or boiled, loses all peculiarity of taste, d resembles good bread. Of the taro, when xed, is made the favourite article of food led poe. This operation, although simple, is orious, and performed by the men. The

like dough. It is then put into a and water having been added till it thinness of paste, it is set by for ferr The poe may be used in a day or this; but a preference is given to t has stood four or five days. "It says Mr. Stewart, "by thrusting th ger of the right hand into the mas curing as much as will adhere to it, it to the mouth, with a hasty revo tion of the hand and finger. The of the fore-finger is derived from t it, Ka Lima poe,' the finger poe, ger."

Taro, beaten in the way I have but not having been wet, is of gre one of the sea-stores of the native it may be kept for many months, an ed so as to produce soft poe, at ple

The bread fruit is also a valuab article of food. It is prepared for use it from the tree while still unripe, ing it upon burning coals. The which is somewhat like that of the lon, soon becomes burnt and black inner part is roasted like a pota sufficiently cooked, the rind may b moved, and the remainder is read having the taste of the hard boiled egg.

The cocoa nut, which you hav seen, is of great use to the native

respects. It is very large, sometimes eighteen inches in circumference, enclosed by a thick fibrous rind. Within the shell, which s extremely hard, is a kernel, of a delicate vhiteness, very palatable, and containing in ts centre a quantity of delicious milky fluid, ometimes amounting to a quart. The shells f these nuts, which are quite capacious, erve many purposes in the domestic affairs f the people; and from the fibres of the rind, kind of strong cordage is made, used in gging the native vessels, and in many other stances, where a secure mode of fastening desired.

Besides these natural productions of the lands, many foreign vegetables have been troduced-such as onions, beans, cucumrs, cabbages, squashes, &c. Indian corn ives there, and will probably soon be exsively used. Oranges, lemons, grapes, figs, e-apples, tamarinds, and other fruits, have en cultivated to some extent, by foreigners dent at the islands.

Thus you see that the chiefs may truly be to live at their ease, enjoying a profusion he produce of the land and sea, and having other care but "to eat, and to drink, and e merry." I have before told you that this s of people were excessively corpulent, ch is doubtless caused by the quantity and ity of the food which they consume. The

above all other things, tends to

this vast increase of size. Mr. Ste that he never saw but two of the ch weight was not prodigious. As will mention Kuakini, governor who, when but twenty-five year weighed three hundred and pounds; and Wahinepio, governes whose weight was not less than fo pounds. We are told that some males of rank, who are gradually a mode of dress which they see amor lish and American ladies on the becoming dissatisfied with their lent figures, and are thinking of poe, that their size may diminish clothes set better.

Formerly the food of all classes was contained and served in woo or calabashes. By means of inter vessels from Canton, the chiefs ha plied themselves with pieces of which they take their meals. They of them also, chairs, tables, knive but these are not yet in general usually take four meals in the cou one quite early in the morning; a or eleven o'clock in the forenoon about four in the afternoon; and late in the evening.

The female chiefs are in the ha ing pigs or dogs about them, as vourites. These are permitted