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with only one leg, instances of hare lips, and of 

 persons deaf and dumb. * Even less remarkable 

 cases are much more rare in other islands. A sick- 

 ness, which the Europeans have spread in most of 

 the islands of the Soutli Sea, seems, according to 

 Kadu, not to be quite unknown at Ulea. 



The inhabitants of the Carolinas in general are 

 fatter and stouter than those of Radack. Tattooing 

 is every where arbitrary, and has no reference to 

 religious faith: the chiefs are not more tattooed than 

 the common people. A piece of banana stuff, worn 

 almost like the maro of Owhyee and Otaheite, is 

 the usual dress, and only at Pelli the men are en- 

 tirely naked, as was also formerly the case in the 

 Mariana islands. The ear ornaments of the inhabi- 

 tants of Radack are not worn at Pelli. The gristle 

 ofthenoseis pierced through for putting sweet- 

 scented flowers in. The bracelet, made of the 

 bones of the Trichecus diigongy which the chiefs of 

 the Pelevv islands wear, is described by Captain 

 Wilson. The chiefs at Eap wear a similar broad 

 bracelet made of a shell polished. 



The houses are every where large, and closed. 

 You can come in at the door without stooping. 

 Paved foot-paths, and square yards are before the 

 houses at Eap, as in the Pelew islands, where we 

 have been made acquainted with them by Captain 

 Wilson. 



* Kadu also saw at Eap a monstrous Kaluv, that had two 

 tails, and two tongues. 



