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Updated: May 28, 2025
But my sole possessions in the way of outer clothing are one pair of too-ancient trousers, one pair of tattered slippers, one fez, and one poor old dressing-gown. My estimable Uncle round the corner has the rest. Perhaps I am less a hermit than a prisoner a prisoner over whom that sternest of janitors, Poverty, holds the key.
For the first time I saw things I had only heard of, such as the pahoas, fashioned of whale-teeth and suspended by braided human hair, and worn on the breast only by the highest of rank. "There were tapes and mats of the rarest and oldest; capes and leis and helmets and cloaks, priceless all, except the too-ancient ones, of the feathers of the mamo, and of the iwi and the akakane and the o-o.
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