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some of the relatives of my informant had been killed. Eeprisals, 

 however, were being planned, and from the way in which he spoke 

 of them, it was evident that he looked forward with no little 

 pleasure to the chance of elongatmg his feather. 



The Jobi men are much disfigured by the moxa tattooing to 

 which I have alluded on a former page, and seem to be even fonder 

 of decoration than the people of Dorei Bay. Necklaces of the 

 common cowrie, with a single pendant of the snowy Ovidum ovum 



COJtB OF AN'SUS MAN. 



on the chest, are worn by every one, and the bracelets, armlets, 

 and shoulder-straps are extremely well worked. The few women 

 that we saw were very shy, and could not be induced to come on 

 board, or to remain when we entered the houses. They wore 

 nothing but a piece of native-worked cloth resembling the tappa of 

 the Polynesians. Several were tattooed with faint blue lines above 

 and on the breasts, to form a diagonal "diamond -pane" pattern, 

 and all wore mats of a most peculiar cowl-like shape over the head 

 and shoulders. In one or two instances we also saw men with 

 them. Mr. Jens told us that, as far as he could learn, these were 

 worn as mom^ning for the death of a relative. A very similar dress 

 exists among the Dorei Bay people, but it is only seen on women 

 who have been recently confined, the idea being that the sun must 

 not shine upon their heads, or it will cause the death of some near 

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