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considerable share of cheerfulness, and activity. * 

 Children are suckled for a long time, and receive 

 the breast when they can already walk and talk. 

 The Radackers are of a darker colour than the 

 people of Owhyee, from whom they are advantage- 

 ously distinguished by greater clearness of tlie skin, 

 which is not disfigured, either by the effects of the 

 kava, or by any cutaneous disease. Both sexes 

 wear their long beautiful black hair neatly and ele- 

 gantly tied up behind. The children have it 

 hanging down, unconfined, and curly. The men 

 sufier their beard to grow, which is long, though 

 not particularly thick, t Their teeth are generally 

 spoiled by the nature of their food; from the 

 chewing of the woody, fibrous fruit of the pan- 

 danus ; and, sometimes, in the front, are broken 

 off. It is less frequent with the chiefs, for whom 

 the juice of the fruit is generally pressed out, and 

 separated over the edge of a shell. Men and 

 women wear, in their pierced ear-lappets, a rolled 



* We must mention a natural deformity, which we observed 

 in several wives of the chiefs of different groups, and in a 

 youngchief of the group of Eilu: it respects the fore-arm. The 

 ulna appears, in the bend of the hand, dislocated above, and the 

 fore-arm, which is bent, or more or less checked in its growth, 

 is in some cases scarcely a span long ; the hand is small, and 

 bent outwards. A child in Otdia, had a double row of teeth in 

 its mouth. We met also with an instance of a person deaf and 

 dumb. 



t We were told of a contest in Tabual, in which a man from 

 Meduro was killed, whose beard reached to his knee ! 



