could find, and when they came out, even with this veil, we could
see that their modesty suffered much pain by our presence."
(Hawkesworth, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 257-258.)

In Rotuma, in Polynesia, where the women enjoy much freedom, but
where, at all events in old days, married people were, as a rule,
faithful to each other, "the language is not chaste according to
our ideas, and there is a great deal of freedom in speaking of
immoral vices. In this connection a man and his wife will speak
freely to one another before their friends. I am informed,
though, by European traders well conversant with the language,
that there are grades of language, and that certain coarse
phrases would never be used to any decent woman; so that
probably, in their way, they have much modesty, only we cannot
appreciate it." (J. Stanley Gardiner, "The Natives of Rotuma,"
_Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, May, 1898, p. 481.)

The men of Rotuma, says the same writer, are very clean, the
women also, bathing twice a day in the sea; but "bathing in
public without the _kukuluga_, or _sulu_ [loin-cloth, which is
the ordinary dress], around the waist is absolutely unheard of,
and would be much looked down upon." (_Journal of the
Anthropological Institute_, 1898, p. 410.)

In ancient Samoa the only necessary garment for either man or
woman was an apron of leaves, but they possessed so "delicate a
sense of propriety" that even "while bathing they have a girdle
of leaves or some other covering around the waist." (Turner,
_Samoa a Hundred Years Ago_, p. 121.)