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This youn^ woman, who was the most corpulent of the whole 

 tribe, is represented as sitting on the bed within a snow hut, to 

 have the tatooing delineated ; this consisted of three lines horizontally 

 across each cheek, and three vertically across the chin, a double 

 line round the neck and breast above the shoulder, another below 

 the shoulder, and a third above the elbow; between each of these 

 lines, which encircled the arms and parallel to each other, there were 

 ornamental devices, but without any meaning ; and all the women 

 were tatooed exactly in the same way. She was tive feet four inches 

 and a quarter high, and was about twenty-five years of age. 

 Her husband's name was Konag, who was also young, but 

 they had no children, which is considered a great reproach 

 to both parties. They went to the western sea in the sum- 

 mer of 1830, but returned in 1831 to us at 8heriii"'s harbour, at 

 which time she had become much more corpulent, and was still 

 without a family. Her skin was a dirty copper colour, her face 

 was broad, her brow very low, her eyes, nose, and mouth small, 

 and her cheeks very red. She seemed very indolent, as well as her 

 husband ; and, at one time, they were so unsuccessfid that we had 

 to relieve their wants to keep them from starving. Her mother, 

 whose name was Ninuia Himna, but nicknamed by the sailors, 

 Old Greedy, as well as herself, was u constant visitor to the ship, 



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