There are in my collection two specimens of the liku, one of them being made of the fashionable waloa. The other is the common liku. It is made of split grass, the blades of which are more than three feet in length. In order to make them into the garment they have been doubled, and the loops woven into a narrow plaited belt of the same material. The better kind of likus are, however, made with far greater care than is bestowed on this article. There is but little difference in the thongs, the chief labor being bestowed on the belt. In some cases the belt of the liku is four inches in width, and is plaited into elegant patterns, plaiting being an art in which the natives excel. In general shape the liku never varies, being worn by girls and women alike. As long as a girl is unmarried, she wears a liku the fringe of which is not more than three inches in depth, and the whole article is so scanty that when tied round the waist the ends do not meet at the hips by several inches. As soon as the girl is married, she changes her liku in token of her new rank, and wears a garment with a fringe that reaches half-way to her knees, and which entirely surrounds the body. After she has become a mother, she wears an apron which quite reaches to the knees, and sometimes falls below them. CHAPTER XCIV. FIJI--_Continued_. MANUFACTURES. MAT MAKING -- SAILS FOR THE CANOES -- FLOOR MATS AND BEDDING -- ROPE AND STRING -- SINNET AND ITS VARIOUS USES -- THE NETTING NEEDLE AND MESH -- FANS AND SUNSHADES -- THE ORATOR’S FLAPPER -- BASKET WORK -- FIJIAN POTTERY, AND NATIVE ART -- POTTERY RESTRICTED TO THE WOMEN -- THEIR SIMPLE TOOLS AND IMPERFECT MATERIALS -- MODE OF “FIRING” THE VESSELS -- GLAZING THE WATER VESSELS -- FIJIAN FISHERMEN -- VARIOUS KINDS OF NETS, AND MODES OF USING THEM -- THE TURTLE FISHERY -- A BOLD DIVER -- CONTRACTORS FOR TURTLE -- MODES OF CATCHING THE REPTILE -- A “HEAD” OF TURTLE AND ITS VALUE -- DANGERS OF THE FISHERY -- FIJIAN CANOES, AND MODE OF MANAGING THEM -- BUILDING CANOES -- INGENIOUS METHOD OF JOINING THE PLANKS -- TONGA CARPENTERS -- THE FIJIANS INFERIOR SAILORS TO THE TONGANS -- FIJIAN TRADERS. Mats of various kinds are made by the women, and they display as much ingenuity in mat-making as in the manufacture of masi. Mats are employed for many purposes. The sails of the Fijian canoes are always made of matting, which is woven in lengths and then sewed together afterward, just as is the case with our own canvas sails. The width of the strips varies from two to four feet, and their length from three to a hundred yards. On an average, however, the usual length of these strips is twenty feet, that being the ordinary length of a sail. Sail mats are necessarily rather coarse, and are made from the leaf of the cocoa-nut palm.