Nov. 

 1825. 



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the eye, is produced by a succession of small blue CHAP 

 lines, beginning at the waist and extending down- 

 ward to the knee. Besides this, some of them tattoo 

 their foreheads in arched lines, as well as the edges of 

 their ears, and the fleshy part of their lips. The 

 males tattoo themselves in curved lines of a dark 

 Berlin blue colour upon the upper part of the throat, 

 beginning at the ear, and sloping round below the 

 under jaw. The face is sometimes nearly covered 

 with lines similar to those on the throat, or with an 

 uninterrupted colouring, excepting two broad stripes 

 on each side, at right angles to each other. Most of 

 their lips were also stained. Others had different 

 parts of their bodies variously marked, but in the 

 greater number it was confined to a small space. 

 All the lines were drawn with much taste, and car- 

 ried in the direction of the muscle in a manner very 

 similar to the New Zealanders. These people have 

 had so little communication with Europeans, or have 

 benefited so little by it, that we did not perceive 

 any European cloth among them ; and the cloth 

 mulberry -tree, which grows upon their island, pro- 

 duces so small a supply, that part of the inhabitants 

 necessarily go naked : the larger portion however 

 wear a maro, made either of fine Indian cloth of a 

 reddish colour, of a wild kind of parsley, or of a spe- 

 cies of sea-weed. 



Their weapons are short clubs of a flattened oval 

 form, tapering toward the handle, and a little curved. 

 The straw hats mentioned both by Cook and Perouse 

 appeared to be no longer used. One man only had 

 his head covered ; and that with a tattered felt hat, 

 which he must have obtained from some former 

 visiters. A ramrod, which had probably been pro- 



