fied to their valuation of the
countenance as a semaphore of emotion; at the same time their
resort to this artifice was an implicit recognition of the
desirability of bringing the window of the soul nearer to the
audience. The Hawaiians, though they made no use of masks in
the halau, valued facial expression no less than the Greeks.
The means for the study of this division of the subject, from
the nature of the case, is somewhat restricted and the
pursuit of illustrations makes it necessary to go outside of
the halau.

The Hawaiian language was one of hospitality and invitation.
The expression _mai_, or _komo mai_, this way, or come in,
was the most common of salutations. The Hawaiian sat down to
meat before an open door; he ate his food in the sight of all
men, and it was only one who dared being denounced as a churl
who would fail to invite with word and gesture the passer-by
to come in and share with him. This gesture might be a
sweeping, downward, or sidewise motion of the hand in which
the palm faced and drew toward the speaker. This seems to
have been the usual form when the two parties were near to
each other; if they were separated by any considerable
distance, the fingers would perhaps more likely be turned
upward, thus making the signal more distinctly visible and at
the same time more emphatic.
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In the expression of unvoiced assent and dissent the Hawaiian
practised refinements that went beyond our ordinary
conventions. To give assent he did not find it necessary so
much as to nod the head; a lifting of the eyebrows sufficed.
On the other hand, the expression of dissent was no less
simple as well as decisive, being attained by a mere grimace
of the nose. This manner of indicating dissent was not,
perhaps, without some admixture of disdain or even scorn; but
that feeling, if predominant, would call for a reenforcement
of the gesture by some additional token, such as a pouting of
the lips accompanied by an upward toss of the chin. A more
impersonal and coldly businesslike way of manifesting a
negative was by an