THE SAVAGE ORIGIN OF TATTOOING. 



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left arm of a prisoner Lacassagne found the words, Quand la 



neige tombera noire, B sortira de ma rtiemoire (When the 



snow falls black, B will pass out of my memory). 



The multiplicity of marks results from the strange liking 

 these curious heroes have of spreading on their body, just after 



Fig. 1. 



the fashion of the American Indians, the adventures of their lives. 



For example, M C , twenty-seven years old (Fig. 1), who 



had been condemned at least fifty times for rebellion and assaults 



