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NATIVE HAIR-DRESSING. 



forehead^ tlien combed out at leiig'th^ and tied mid- 

 wa}^ with a string*^ leaving- one part straig'ht^ and 

 the remainder frizzled out into a mop projecting- 

 horizontally backwards. Some also had a long- 

 pig'tail hang-ing' down behind^ in one case decorated 

 with a bunch of dog-'s teeth at the end. Across the 

 forehead they wore fillets of small shells strung- 

 tog-ether over a broad white band of some leafy sub- 

 stance. The septum of the nose was perforated^ 

 and some wore a long- straig'ht nose-stick of bone 

 with black bands. All our visitors had then- teeth 

 darkened with the practice of betel chewing-^— we saw 

 them use the leaf of the betel pepper^ the g-reen areca 

 nut^ and lime^ the last carried in a small calabash 

 with a spatula. 



We had been becalmed all the morning-^ but before 

 noon the sea-breeze set in from the S. S. E._, and we 



