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tance, which we must consider as such statues. Of 

 the pierced and extended ear-laps, which were 

 formerly in fashion, we only saw one instance, in 

 an old islander. The stone on the part of the 

 shore where we landed was old brown lava. The 

 tattooing of the face consisted chiefly of one stripe, 

 running all round, near which were several round 

 spots, at equal distances from each other. Some 

 had the face entirely tattooed, so that only a few 

 red spots remained, which showed the colour of 

 the skin. The lips of all we saw were dyed either 

 blue or black. Many of the people were thickly 

 marked with black dots, from the instep to the 

 knee. Of the domestic animals, we only saw one 

 fowl. On the 7th of April we caught a Salpa 

 bipartita, Labill. which was very different from all 

 other Salpa'. At the same time 1 likewise ob- 

 tained the only true marine insect hitherto known, 

 which has much resemblance to the Velia^ Latr. 

 It runs with great rapidity on the surface of the 

 sea (like the Hydrometra rivulot^urn, F.) and lives 

 in all seas under the torrid zone. 



The inhabitants of the Penrhyn islands were 

 not tattooed ; some of them had their hair cropped, 

 and others wore a wreath of black feathers round 

 their head ; some of them also wore a small mat 

 on the shoulder, to serve as a mantle. In each of 

 the boats, which are furnished with an out-rigger, 

 was an elderly man, who had a whole cocoa-leaf 

 hung round his neck, some of the foliola, on one 



