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made from the bone of fome animal, whicln was huno; '777- 



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round the neck, with a great many folds of fmall cord. 1 — ^ — -> 

 And afcer the ceremony of introduclion to the Chiefs was 

 over, they then appeared without their red feathers ; which 

 are certainly confidered here as a particular mark, of dif- 

 tin(5tion ; for none but themfelves, and the young women 

 who danced, affUmcd them. 



Some of the men were pun6lured all over the fides and 

 back, in an uncommon manner ; and fbme of the women 

 had the fame ornament on their legs. But this method vv'as 

 confined to thofe who feemed to be of a fuperior rank ; and 

 the men, in that cafe, were alfo generally diftinguiflied by 

 their fize and corpulence, unlefs very young. The women 

 of an advanced age had their hair cropped fiiort ; and many 

 were cut, in oblique lines, all over the fore-part of the body; 

 and fome of the wounds, which formed rhomboidal figures, 

 had been fo lately inflicted, that the coagulated blood ftill 

 remained in them. 



The wife of one of the Chiefs appeared with her child, 

 laid in a piece of red cloth, which had been pre fen red to her 

 hufband ; and feemed to carry it with great tendernefs, fuck- 

 ling it much after the manner of our women. Another 

 Chief introduced his daughter, who was yotmg and beauti- 

 ful ; but appeared with all the timidity natural to the fex ; 

 though flie gazed on us with a kind of anxious concern, 

 that feemed to flruggle with her fear, and to exprefs her 

 aftonifliment at fo unufual a fight. Others advanced with 

 more firmnefs, and, indeed, were lefs referved than we ex- 

 pcifled ; but behaved with a becoming modefty. We did 

 not obferve any perfonal deformities amongfl either fex ; 

 except in a few who had fears of broad fuperficial ulcers, 



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