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Water Chase 

 OF Hots. 



Form of the 

 Papuans. 



PAPUAN ISLANDS, 



fox-rooking dogs, for the purpofc of purfuit by fea or land ; fof 

 the Pap!ia?is have a mofl fingular \vater chafe, which is that of 

 hogs; they follow thofe animals as they are fwimnaing among 

 the fmall illands, and flioot them with their arrows, or transfix 

 them with fpcars. The fwinc fwim in a line, and the hindmof! 

 hogs reft their fnouts on the backs of the preceding. Mr. Forrejl -' 

 gives us a reprefentation of this kind of hmiting, and alfo of the 

 perfons, boats, and' the naval ai^pafatiis of thefe fportfmen. They 

 are excellent archers ; their arrows are often fix feet long ; the 

 bow is generally of flit bamboo., and tlie ftring of fplit rattans. 



The afpe6l of thefe people is frightful and hideous ; the 

 men are ftout in body, their fkin of a fliining black, rough, 

 and often disfigured with marks like thofe oecafianed' by the 

 kprofy ; their eyes are very large, their nofes flat, mouth from 

 ear to ear, their lips amazingly thick, efpeeially the upper lip \ 

 their hair woolly, either a fliining black or fiery red : M. Sort' 

 nerat imagines the laft to be owing to fome powder. It is dreflTed 

 in a vaft bufli, fo as to referable a mop ; fome are three feet in. 

 cireumference, the leaft two and a half; in this they ftick their 

 ccmb, conlifting of four or five diverging teeth, with which 

 they occafioually drefs their frizzled locks, to give them a greater 

 bulk ; they fometimes ornament them with feathers of the birds 

 of Paradife ; others add to their deformity by boring their nofesi 

 and pafling through them rings, pieces of bone, or flicks ; and 

 many, by way of ornament, hang round their necks the tiiflcs 

 of boars. The heads of the women are of lefs fize than thofe 

 of the men, and in their left ear they wear fmall brafs rings. 



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