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appeared to us as having handsome features, an 

 agreeable and expressive physiognomy, a well- 

 made, slender, and healthy form, and old age 

 not accompanied with infirmity. The eye of 

 the artist rejoiced to gaze upon a more beautiful 

 nature than the bathing places in Europe (his 

 only school) afford him. The blueish broad- 

 lined tattooing, which exactly follows the di- 

 rection of the muscle, has a very pleasing effect 

 on the brown ground of their skin. There seems 

 to be no want of bast stuffs. White or yellow 

 mantles of it are very general. Fresh wreaths of 

 leaves are worn in their hair, which is cut of differ- 

 ent lengths. Head-dresses of black feathers are 

 more rare; we observed several ornamental neck- 

 laces which were adorned in the middle with a 

 polished shell (^Patella). We met with no inele- 

 gant, disfiguring ornaments. Some old men had 

 their pierced and extended ear-lappets tied together, 

 drawn again through the hole, and thus not very 

 perceptible. The fore-teeth were frequently broken 

 ofJ*. Some yoiuig men were distinguished by a 

 much lighter colour of the skin. We saw only a 

 few women, and these had their faces painted dark 

 red, without either beauty or grace, and seemed to 

 be without consideration among the men. One of 

 them had an infant at the breast. We do not feel 

 ourselves authorized on this account to draw a con- 

 clusion respecting the proportion of the numbers 

 of the two sexes. 



If we compare the reports of Cook, La Pey rouse, 



