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Hill more. Several had the fame lobe cut into 

 ilircds ; it had probably been thus torn in battle, 

 or in their excurfions through the foreds. 



We remarked behind the ears of one of 

 thcfe fiivages fome tubercles in the Ihape of a 

 fvveetbread, and half as big as the fid. He 

 appeared exceedingly flattered to fee us examine 

 this ornament. He had made it grow by means 

 of a cai'.llic, which no doubt had for fome 

 time occafioned a confidcrable degree of irri- 

 tation. 



The women had no other garment than a 

 fringe m.ade of filaments of bark, which ferved 

 them as a girdle pafling fcveral times round 

 their body. {See Plate XXXFI.) 



The canoes kept quite clofe to our fliip, by 

 jPieans of different ropes which we had thrown 

 10 them. However they each had, by way of 

 u\ anchor, a very heavy done faflened to a long 

 rope, but none of them rode by it. 



The following day, the 22d, we weighed at fix: 

 o'clock in the morning, and made feveral tacks 

 i\ tirdcr to get nearer to Obfervatory Ifland, 

 ':o wliich tlxC inhabitants give the name of 

 Piidyo-ui. When we anchored about half paft 

 ten o'clock, it bore eaf!' 3"" 15' fouth, and our 

 diilance from it -.viis no more than a kilometer. 

 I/'rcm call 19 30' fouth to well: 12' north, we 

 fa-,v the land of New Caledonia, the neareft 



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