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King, in his continuation of Captain Cook's third voy- 

 age, vol. ill, page 135, observes "That the Sand- 

 ** wich Islanders have the custom of tatiovving the 

 *' body in common with the rest of the natives of th^ 

 ** South Sea Islands. The arms and hands of the 

 " women are also very neatly marked, and they hav^e 

 ** a singular custom among them, the meaning of 

 " which (Captain King says) we could never learn^ 

 " that of tattowing the tips of the tongues of the 

 " females. From some information we received re- 

 ** lative to the custom of tattowing, we were inclined 

 ** to think it is frequently intended as a sign of 

 *' mourning on the death of a chief, or any other 

 ** calamitous event ; for we were often told, that such 

 " a particular mark was in memory of such a chief, 

 " and so of the rest. It may be here too observed, 

 '* that the lowest class of natives are often tattowed 

 ** with a mark that distinguishes them as the property 

 " of some chief." 



Model of a Canoe, Nootka Sound, 



New Zealand Canoe. 



Models of Canoes of different nations — Eskimaux, 

 Davis's Straits, New Zealand, &c. 



Lines for Fishing, made of human hair. 



Basket to hold liquids; from the Sandwich Islands, 

 South Seas. 



Bread- Pounder, from Otaheite. It is made of 

 black basaltes, and is an astonishing effort of labour, 

 executed by a people to whom the use of iron in- 

 struments are unknown. It is used in pounding the 

 bread fruit. 



Spear-Caster, from New Caledonia, by means of 

 which the natives strike fish with a surprising celerity. 



Caps, from Nootka, or King George's Sound, made 

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