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Biigincse and Macassar IijuIits also cany on a con sirlf Table 

 traffic in slaves, bringing them from Tlalnialicira and the coasls 

 of Borneo and Celebes. In this way also may be accounted 

 for some of the racc-niinsrlini;. 



The clothing of the men consists of a narrow T-sliaped luln- 

 cloth, with the ends which hang d<»\vn in front decorated with red, 

 black and white patchwork, and adorned with sections of cowrie- 

 shells and with beads. The women wear a short sarong (Malay 

 petticoat), artistically woven by themselves out of the fibrrs of 

 the Aloan-palm {Borassus flahclliformh), suspended by a broad 

 belt made from the stem of its leaf and fastened ]>y an elaborately 

 carved buckle of wood which frequently in married women has 

 been the gift of her husband at the time when herpurchase-money 

 Avas agreed on, possibly a sort of engagement tol^i-n. Anulets 

 cut from conns shells, of brass, of ivory, or 

 of wood, carved like those worn by tlie Hill 

 Dyaks of Borneo, are worn by both sexes; 

 while the women have in addition toe-rin<j:s 

 and anklets of brass. Bound the helix and 

 in the lobe of their ears the women wear a 

 graduated series of silver or of gold lor- 

 lora or rings, which in the case of the men 

 is often so heavy as to break away the 

 cartilage. The patterns of these ear orna- 

 ments are exceedingly chaste, especially 

 those carved out of bone, of ivory and 

 ebony combined, or of the tooth of the rare 

 and highly-prizud dugong {llalicore). 



Both sexes tatoo a fe\v simple devices, 

 circles, stars and pointed crosses, on tlie breast, on the brow, on 

 the cheek, and on the wrists; aufl scar, with the utmost eqnani- 

 mity, their arms and shoulders with rod hot stones in imitation 

 of small-pox marks, as a charm that will ward off, they think, 

 that disease. I did not, however, see any one variola-marked, 

 nor could I learn of an epidemic of the disease having appeared 

 among them. As it was considered by the women a mark of 

 beauty to have filed teeth, some of them had only a narrow 

 rim left protruding from their gums. 



The men spend a life of savage indolence or indulgence, 

 the women alone are always busily occupied. In the morning. 



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