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board the Cura9oa to pay a visit to the Commodore ; he 

 was accompanied by his talliing-mao, who carried a whisk 

 of cocoaniit fibre to drive away the flies, not uahke the fly- 

 brush used by grooms in Calcutta. He came with an escort 

 of twelve natives, large well-grown muscular fellows, who 



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seemed to have been selected from among the finest men in 

 the archipelago. Some of them wore shirts, others had 

 white mats round their loins ; others again had feathers on 

 their heads. One of them had a splendid head of hair 

 reddened with chinam or coral lime, the national cosmetic. 



one of tbe fine mats made from strips of tlie i^andanus leaf, ornamented 

 witti a border and tufts of red worsted, hanging from liis waist nearly 

 to liis feet. — Erskine, p. 76. 



