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any thing but an agreeable appearance.* Its use 

 certainly does not impart additional beauty to 

 the native females, who habituate themselves 

 to an equal extent to those of the opposite 

 sex.t 



There was an old native of Madras, a Moor- 

 man, forming one of the rajah's attendants on 

 board, whose duty it was to visit ships, and 

 report their arrival to his highness, and also to 

 attend the ship daily to see the cargo taken on 

 board ; this individual had one of his hands 

 rendered useless by a blow from a Klawang, or 

 Malay sword. Besides the scar resulting from 

 this wound, there was an unreduced dislocation 

 of the carpal extremity of the ulna, and a frac- 

 ture of the radius, which, being disunited, an 

 artificial joint had been formed : the cause of 

 this personal injuiy, he said, proceeded from an 

 attack made upon a vessel he was in, by one 

 belonging to the rajah of Acheen, in which 



* It is also by a combination of substances that the 

 Otaheitans produce a red dye from the fruit of a species of 

 FiciAS, called Matti, and the leaves of a species of Cordia, 

 called " Tou." 



f I have often seen on this coast, as well as in Java, small 

 bunches of the abortive fruit, taken from the spathe of the 

 Areka palm, placed as an ornament at the stern and bows of 

 the native boats. 



