hair in both sexes is cut in different forms; and the general fashion, especially among the women, is to have it long before and short behind.  The men often had it cut or shaved on each side, in such a manner, that the remaining part, in some measure, resembles the crest of their caps or helmets formerly described.  Both sexes, however, seem very careless about their hair, and have nothing like combs to dress it with.  Instances of wearing it in a singular manner were sometimes met with among the men, who twist it into a number of separate parcels, like the tails of a wig, each about the thickness of a finger; though the greatest part of these, which are so long that they reach far down the back, we observed were artificially fixed upon the head over their own hair.[1]

[Footnote 1:  The print of Horn Island, which we meet with in Mr Dalrymple’s account of Le Maire and Schouten’s voyage, represents some of the natives of that island with such long tails hanging from their heads as are here described.  See Dalrymple’s Voyages to the South Pacific, vol. ii. p. 58.—­D]

It is remarkable, that, contrary to the general practice of the islands we had hitherto discovered in the Pacific Ocean, the people of the Sandwich Islands have not their ears perforated; nor have they the least idea of wearing ornaments in them.  Both sexes, nevertheless, adorn themselves with necklaces made of bunches of small black cord, like our hat-string, often above a hundred-fold; exactly like those of Wateeoo; only that instead of the two little balls on the middle before, they fix a small bit of wood, stone, or shell, about two inches long, with a broad hook turning forward at its lower part well polished.  They have likewise necklaces of many strings of very small shells, or of the dried flowers of the Indian mallow.  And sometimes a small human image of bone, about three inches long, neatly polished, is hung round the neck.  The women also wear bracelets of a single shell, pieces of black wood, with bits of ivory interspersed and well polished, fixed by a string drawn very closely through them; or others of hogs’ teeth laid parallel to each other, with the concave part outward, and the points cut off, fastened together as the former; some of which made only of large boars’ tusks are very elegant.  The men sometimes wear plumes of the tropic-bird’s feathers stuck in their heads; or those of cocks, fastened round neat polished sticks two feet long, commonly decorated at the lower part with oora; and for the same purpose, the skin of a white dog’s tail is sewed over a stick with its tuft at the end.  They also frequently wear on the head a kind of ornament of a finger’s thickness or more, covered with red and yellow feathers curiously varied and tied behind; and on the arm, above the elbow, a kind of broad shell-work, grounded upon net-work.