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ground away as to expose the columella. Even this scant covering 

 was as often as not worn at the side of the hip or at the back. Many 

 of the men had tinea and the only baby seen had yaws. The women, 

 of whom we saw very few, wear two kinds of covering, one that is 

 practically a perinfeal bandage, as on the Fly, the other a true 

 petticoat. 



Their weapons are bows, arrows and clubs. The latter were 

 few and extremely rough and were certainly imported. Their bows 

 are made of bamboo and with these they make fairly good practice 

 as the following details show. A target about three feet long by two 

 feet broad was put up at a convenient height at a distance of about 

 forty yards. Sixteen men had each one shot at this and though no 

 hits were recorded, many of the arrows went very near the target. It 

 appeared that the time the arrow took to traverse the forty paces was 

 between one and one and a fifth seconds. Each of four of the best 

 shots then fired four arrows with the result that all but one of these 

 hit the target once. The same men shooting at eighty yards, scored 

 no hits, but there was no general falling off in the shooting, their 

 arrows being pretty thick all round the target. Their bows were 

 strung with strips of rattan, and their release is that known as 

 " secondary ". 



During our stay we saw a fair number of canoes. These consist 

 of a hollowed tree trunk, are pointed at each end and have no 

 outrigger ; they pole along with bamboos. As far as could be 

 determined paddles were unknown ; we saw none, nor could we hear 

 of any, but in spite of this the pace was good even when in deep 

 water, their unsplit bamboo poles being used as paddles by men 

 standing in the bows and stern respectively. 



At Tivi we saw a number of tobacco pipes of the same type as 

 those common throughout the Possession ; but in spite of this tobacco 

 did not prove good trade. A twist of their own tobacco was light 

 coloured and seemed extremely mild. 



The only musical instruments met with were the drum and 

 whistle. The latter consisted of an excavated nut-like fruit, and a 



