The bark of the mulberry furnishes the cloth worn by both sexes; of the leaves of the _pandanus_ they make mats.

They have also a kind of wax-nut, about the size of a dried plum of which they make candles by running a stick through several of them.

Lighted at one end, they burn like a wax taper, and are the only light they use in their huts at night.
The men are generally well made and tall: they wear for their entire clothing what they call a _maro_; it is a piece of figured or white tapa, two yards long and a foot wide, which they pass round the loins and between the legs, tying the ends in a knot over the left hip.

At first sight I thought they were painted red, but soon perceived that it was the natural _color_ of their skin.

The women wear a petticoat of the same stuff as the _maro_, but wider and longer, without, however, reaching below the knees.