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Painting' the face or body does not seem to be 

 practised here^ but the men are usually tatooed on 

 the breast, cheeks, forehead, and arms, also occa- 

 sionalh' on other places. Their tatooing", however, 

 is much fainter and less profuse than among* the 

 women, every visible part of whose skin is g-enerally 

 marked with a g-reat variety of patterns, the most 

 usual style among* them consisting- in series of double 

 parallel or converging- lines an inch or more apart, 

 the intervals being" occupied by small iig'ures, or 

 irreg-ular lines, with detached rectilinear fig-ures 

 fancifully filled up. The women wear a petticoat of 

 shreds of pandanus leaf, plaited above into a waist- 

 band and below reaching- nearly to the knee. 



The}^ broug-ht oif little with them for barter 

 besides bows and arrows, and as before a2:)peared 

 perfectly ig-norant of the use of iron. A few cocoa- 

 nuts, plantains, and mang-os were obtained from 

 them, but they had no yams. Nearly every canoe 

 which came along-side contained several larg-e baked 

 earthen pots of g-ood construction, some with wide, 

 others with narrow mouths, and a third sort shaped 

 like a saucer. Besides bows and arrows, we saw 

 many spears, mostly of small size and usually finely 

 jag-g-ed or barbed towards the end, but of very 

 inferior workmanship, also some shields, one of 

 which may be described.* It measures 33 inches 

 in leng-th by 14 in width, and in shape resembles a 

 fiddle, being' rounded at the ends and slig'htly 

 * Figured at p. 279, vol. i. 



