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A NATURALIST ON THE "CHALLENGER." 



through the lower deck-scuttles from the cabins with their 

 arrows, but were detected and frustrated in their design. 



NATIVES OF THE VILLAGE OF TOBADDI, HUMBOLDT BAT. 



N.B. — The arrow shown is too short, and should be as long as the bow. 



Many of the men wore a pair of Wild Boar's tusks fastened 

 together in the form of a crescent, and passed through a hole in 

 the septum of the nose, so that the two tusks projected up over 

 their dark cheeks as far as their eyes. Most of the men had 

 short pointed beards, apparently cut to that shape ; the old ones 

 had whiskers. One old man who was bald, wore a complete 

 but small wig. None of the men were tattooed, but they had 

 large cicatrized marks on the outer sides of the upper arms, and 

 smaller ones on the shoulders. 



The fungoid skin disease was common here as at the Aru 

 and Ke Islands, but only on the adults ; the boys and many of 

 the younger men were free of it. 



The men attracted attention to barter by the cries of " urh, 

 urh ! " to express astonishment they struck the top of the 



