The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
apJEcTs OF INTEREST.

OBJECTS OF INTEREST
INTERVIEW WITH A NATIVE OF TEE SAINT
wlCH ssLANps--A COLLECTION or RARE
CURIosITIE TIES-HALF AN E0UR WITH An i "
TKRETING CONvERsATEeNAI4Isr.
There is on exhibition now, and for a fsw
tlavs to come, at Benhazn's music house, a
nurT1bss- of rare curiosities brought from the
Sandwich islands by Mr. Joseph Goodi ich,
temporarily stopping in this city ore of
the articles is a hyInR book in the lang usge
of the island. published in 1898. The sther
of NJ. o5ondrich was then, and for yea rs at
terwerd q missionary stationed there. The
printer engaged by the missionary Ocfesy
to 'sEet up uAe volume died before hiss work
was compIeasd, and the missionary du3s5h
finished it. The book is bound in tortoise
shell covers, and is probably the llY enc
of the kind in the United States, rs only
three of ttsfs style were made. Ill CONTAINS
christian churches sixty OK seventy years
ago, translated into Hawaiian. The title
page reads thus:
SaE sAN sIIMENI HAWAII, HE ETEA HooHEA'I
IKE ABsr.A MAN IA JEHOvA. OAHU: TAUA
IHA aIEA PAL PTg4APALA = IA POE NlSEoN-
Arr, 1e22.
The first sentence translated is "hyn1,s for
use in the worship of jehovah nothe- OBJ
ject OF interest is a lady's bsck-cC imh, man
nfactur3H or iLOr~OlSe SnoE over a Eu2Or6O
wears arG, which has been worn by Two
queens of the Sandwich isla.ds, and by one
of them given to Mr.. GoOdri, :h's another
years aeo. The comb is about eight inches
square, and resembles somewhat the mons
frOcites Worn in this country twenty years
ago. The workmanship is exquisite,
leading one to wonder how the
benightod heathen could design and
execute SO artistically. e I,iece of tapa
cloth sslanufaeGIred about sixty years
10 rIec, a1 iS nf no
bark of q tree native to the islands, and in
color resembles the paper bag now used by
flour dealers. 0ae side is stal npedGith de-
signs III red and black, the colors manu-
facturec from blrks also. The material is
tough, and looks and feels Ii Ike the paper
manufactured nowadays. 1t was used by
the Sand wien Islanders in the maoufacture
of artieles of apparel. Besides the foregoing
there is-exhlbited a section of a string onea
hundred and fifty yards long, made of hair
from the heads OF native chiefs, anG
ONCE WORN BY AQUI ZEN.
These -st-ings, or cords, are W ound loosely
about tbs neck as an orname Mt, to which
is attactaed contrIvance for ST lppoEting the
trail of TIE lady wearing one. The collec-
tion thosgh small is valuable, and to the
curious will well repay inspection. A Sen
tinel reporter was favored with few mo-
ments of conversation last ey eniRg with
Mr.. Goodrich, and takes the liberty of
entertainment of readers who m; " not meet
him. Mr.. q. was born on the isl sndsof Ha-
waii forty gears or more ago. and hasa vivid
recollection of the people, custom sand man.
ners OF the peculiar people inhaioitiFg this
tropical garden. His conversatio uishighly
interesting. especially to the stHde mt of hu-
man natuEO- During the CONVEX satSon he
asked the reporter ID he ever real iE Me-
Guffy's readers when school boy, ard ON
receiving an affirmative answer inquired If
we r6collected description of religious
meeting attended by the officers of sInan-
Of-wE-. "The minister mentione j." said
Mr.. c., "wss my father, AID rung the bell
which called TO the house of welcome on
that occasion not less than nine thousand
natives. TO wkom my father preached. That
was in 1886. You Will find the account on
page 13e of the fourth reader, or page sc of
the fifth" SU bsequeRtly the reporter bOr-
rowed readerof Messrs. Catkcart * CleIand.
and through fear that the memory of maEv
of the Sentinel readers may be indistinct
upon the contents of that lesson, fam liar 30
the school boy and girl OF to-day, he takes
the liberty of transcribing a few abstracts
The article is froRl she pen of Captain Stew
art. .,,-aI..rr. ~ -. -'iIlf saf So
The captain says: "At an early hour of
the morning, eYea before we had taken
breakfast on board the ship. single islander
here or there. or group OF three or Sour,
wrapped in their large inaRtles of various
hues, might be seen winding theirosx'ay
among the groves ringing the bay from the |
east. QeScenul0S IlOA lne nllls ana raVlb<5S 7
on the north, toward the chapel. and by de- |
grees their number increased until in sh ort
time every path along the beach. and over |
the uplands, presented an almost uninter- |
Iupted M ~ b.. IS.
PROCESSION OF BOTH SEXES
and of every age, adj pressing to the house !
of God. So few canoes were round the ship |
yesterday, and The landing place had been |
+. 80 little thronged. as our boats passed 10 and /
fro. that one might have thought the district |
but thinly inhabited; but now, such multi
tude were seen gathering from various di /
rection, that the exclamation, what crowds
ofpeoplei What crowds ofpeopley was heard \
from the quarter deck 90 the fOFseastle."
The report states that when the writer was
there four year, preceding, il was difficult
TO obtain the presence of hundred natives
Z at religious meetings, and adds, ''CTl this oc-
easion the second service should be post
poned till the officers should be at liberty
leave the ship. 1t was near we've a'rias-
when went on shore. Though the si.--.-s.
had commenced when we lanaea
numbers were seen circling the doors With !