Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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me delicacy, and no doubtimagined themselves to be for the time the most favored beingsin the land. Their appearance indicated that roast pig did not of-ten enter into their bill of fare, and the rapidity Avith which theyattacked the contents of the packages showed that they had notdined. Frank thought it must have been a great change for the peopleof the islands when they abandoned their old custom of going with-out clothing and adopted the dress of civilization. When it is remem-bered that a hundred years ago the islanders were naked savages, theremark of the youth is not to be wondered at. The missionaries saythat in the early days the attempts of the natives to adopt Europeandress were decidedly ludicrous; they could not understand the neces-sity of three or more garments, but thought a single one sufficient tobegin with. A hat, a shirt, and a pair of trousers were consideredenough for three, and some of them used to argue that these garments2 18 THE BOY TEAVELLEKS IN AUSTKALASIA.
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DRESS OF HAWAIIAN WOMEN. were altogether too numerous for one individual, when there were somany others without anything. Fred made a sketch of a group of women, and afterwards procuredseveral photographs showing how the feminine natives of the islandsare ordinarily clad. On the back of the sketch he wrote as follows: The dress of the women can hardly be called picturesque, but afterbeing seen a few times its oddity is not as apparent as at first. Mostof the women go bareheaded, or with wreaths of leaves and flowers intheir hair. Their dress hangs from the shoulders without being gath-ered in at the waist, and quite closely resembles the morning Avrapper ofcivilized lands, though it is not so ornamental. Black, dark, and pink arethe usual colors of the dress, but on festive occasions something gayercan be frequently seen. You would be surprised to see the grace anddignity with which the older women carry themselves, and I think-much of it is due to the loosely flowing dress. CLIMATE O

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