150 TATTOOING. 



over, crippled for life. Portions of the skin of his 

 antagonist, which hung in his yaranga, were pointed 

 out by him with great satisfaction, and he proudly 

 displayed the tattooed marks on his chest, won by this 

 dearly-bought victory. Subjoined are fac-similes of 

 other such marks copied by myself from another 

 man's breast on which they were pricked. 



The ingredients for tattooing are tzow-gwit-zow, 

 red ochre ; toong-e-rillery, black-lead, and some kind of 

 blue like indigo ; but this last I never saw, and do not 

 know whether it is an indigenous or acquired article. 



Some of the " Plover's" men were, as is common 

 among sailors, very much tattooed about the arms 

 and breast, and the natives having once discovered 

 these barbaric tokens never tired of inspecting them : 

 the curious and in many instances unique devices dis- 

 played, greatly excited their wonder and admiration ; 

 those of us who had not availed ourselves of this 

 peculiar branch of art were subjected to many queries 

 as to the reasons for the omission. 



We were now within a short distance of the village 

 called Lorenne, to which our instructions had defini- 

 tively pointed as the probable goal of our efforts, for 



