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liis liead, like a quaint style of European hat. Some of the 

 liouses were raised two or three feet from the ground. 

 There were a great many women about, some not bad 

 looking, some perfectly naked, 

 others with a lavalava which 

 imperfectly covered their naked- 

 ness. They did not appear to 

 have any shyness, or mind being 

 looked at. The men seemed 

 here and elsewhere never to 2;o 

 about without clubs or spears. 



There was a large canoe house supported by wooden 

 pillars, on Avhich strange figures were sculptured of men and 

 sharks, many of the latter in the act of swallowing men. 

 Just under the roof, in front, there Avere about twenty-five 

 skulls hanging up of unfortunate bushmen who had been 

 eaten by these people, and all I saw showed the effects of 

 the club or tomahawk ; and at the side mider the roof Avere 

 a number of the under jaAvs of boars' heads, mostly with the 

 tusks taken out, and with them human jaws Avithout teeth, 

 which probably belonged to the skulls of the bushmen ; 

 from these jaAvs, too, leg and arm bones Avere suspended. In 

 contrast Avith this strange exhibition, implying a very rude 

 state of society, Avas the village road, Avhich seemed as care- 

 fully sAvept and attended to as in the most civihsed village. 

 On my AA^ay back I again passed through the same village, 

 and a little Avay farther on came to another tolerably large 

 one, where I saAv the same sort of shed ornamented Avith 



