ves a good idea of the distinction felt between the classes:

"A well-supplied dish is the wooden dish,
The high-raftered sleeping-house with shelves;
The long eating-house for women.
The rushes are spread down, upon them is spread the mat,
They lie on their backs, with heads raised in dignity,
The fly brushers wave to and fro at the door; the door is shut,
the black _tapa_ is drawn up.

"Haste, hide a little in refreshing sleep, dismiss fatigue.
They sleep by day in the silence where noise is forbidden.
If they sleep two and two, double is their sleep;
Enjoyable is the fare of the large-handed man.
In parrying the spear the chief is vigorous;
the breaking of points is sweet.
Delightful is the season of fish, the season of food;
when one is filled with fish, when one is filled with food.
Thou art satisfied with food, O thou common man,
To be satisfied with land is for the chief."

Compare the account of the Fiji chief in Williams and Calvert, I, 33-42.]

[Footnote 9: Stair, p. 220; Gracia, p. 59; Alexander, History, chap. IV;
Malo, p. 210. The name used for the priesthood of Hawaii, _kahuna_, is
the same as that applied in the Marquesas, according to Gracia (p. 60),
to the order of chanters.]

[Footnote 10: Gracia, p. 46; Mariner, II, 87, 101, 125; Gill, Myths and
Songs, pp. 20, 21; Moerenhout, I, 474-482.]

[Footnote 11: Malo, p. 69.]

[Footnote 12: Ellis (III, 36) describes the art of medicine in
Polynesia, and Erdland (p. 77) says that on the Marshall Islands
knowledge of the stars and weather signs is handed down to a favorite
child and can raise rank by attaching a man to the service of a chief.

Compare Mariner, II, 90; Moerenhout, I, 409; Williams and Calvert, I,
111.]

III. THE ART OF COMPOSITION

1. ARISTOCRATIC NATURE OF POLYNESIAN ART

The arts of song and oratory, though practiced by all classes,[1] were
considered worthy to be perfected among the chiefs themselves and those
who sought their patronage. Of a chief the Polynesian says, "He speaks
well."[2] Hawaiian stories tell of heroes famous in the _hoopapa_, or
art of debating; in the _hula_, or art of dance and song; of chiefs who
learned the lore of the heavens and the earth from some supernatural
master in order to employ their skill competitively. The _oihana
haku-mele_, or "business of song making," was hence an aristocratic art.
The able composer, man or woman, even if of