Of la ^erouse. 193 



may be ken in Plaies XXXVII and XXXVIIL 

 Some of them had brought a fmall number of 

 cocoa-nuts and fugar-canes, which they perlift- 

 ed in not parting with, although we offered a 

 great price for them. 



Thefe favages were quite naked; but they 

 had the penis wrapped up, fome in pieces of 

 coarfe cloth made of bark, aiid others in large 

 leaves of trees. They have woolly hair. The 

 black colour of their fkin is aimed as dark as 

 that of the natives of Cape Dicmen, whofe caft 

 of countenance has a great refemblanceto theirs. 

 {See Plate XXXV,) Several had their head fur- 

 rounded by a fmall net with wide mcflies. We 

 faw with furprife a great immbcr who, wifning 

 no doubt to appear with very long hair, had 

 faflencd to it tv.o or three braids made of grafs, 

 and covered with the hair of the bat, called vef- 

 pcrtilin vampyrus, and wliich reached down to 

 the middle of their back. 



The grcarer j^art of thcfe ifianders Vv'ere arm- 

 ed with darts and clubs, and curried in their .o;;r. 

 die a fmall bac^- Idled with ftones cut in an oval 

 iliapc, vvliich they throvy- Yv'irli tiieir flings. (S.e 

 Plate XXXV and Pi jteXXXVtlLFii. 16, i-,and 

 iS.) The inferior lobe of tl^eir cars, in which a 

 very large ho!e v/as bored, hiirig dov.n to their 

 fhoulders : ilQw.Q had iniroduccJ in it leaves of 

 trees, and oihcrs a bit of v.ccd, to enlarge ic 



N OL. i\. o Hill 



