They always go bare-headed, except in battle, where they like to exhibit themselves adorned with a sort of helmet made of twigs and feathers.
The women never wear any thing but flowers on their heads.

Tattooing was known, but less practiced than at the Marquesas, and much more rudely.
The Hawaiians are not cannibals.

They have been upbraided in Europe as eaters of human flesh, but such is not the case.

They have never killed a man for food.

It is true that in sacrifices they eat certain parts of the victim, but there it was a religious rite, not an act of cannibalism.