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colour §{{; others wear the ordinary cross + with the vertical 
beam running along the nose, and the cross-bar above the eyes. 
Others wear the Lorraine-cross +. with the upper cross-beam 
on the forehead, and the lower lying across the bridge = mh 
nose. hers again wear the Maltese cross on their ca : ; 
The women have the Maltese cross tattooed on the upper lip, 
? 
and on their legs the Lorraine-cross with two St. Andrew’s 
crosses drawn on either side, as shown in figure 
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have as a rule their chin tattooed with — 
vertical and parallel lines; the women have five or seven ~ 
them, as the case may be, on the chin, and four on the al 
ip, two on either side of a cross, and the whole set is bracketed. 
Srepcee) 
“* once received into heaven.’? ««B "a “1 diaowi 
‘‘ sign?’ T asked; ‘ Where is he to go ?’’—-** God will dis 
‘him and cast him off,’? ! 
a letter, dated Saikwock, Ist December, 1851, Fr. Krick thus 
describes his first interview with the Abors :— 5 shies 
September I landed at Saikwock, situated along 
Captain Smith, commander of the 
ly. 
he v » Captain Wath, who was organising an ae 
pedition for the protection of the Dihong gold-washers. invited me 
d see me safe to Tibet. ‘‘ We can hd 
; **he would come to grief,—and we are respon 
for our guests.’? 
a struck me most during this conference was, ae their 
Savage dress, the typically European Physiognomy of those peopte._ 
But I soon noticed, at a closer examination, most yovdoetacr 30 
@ cross neatly designed and painted in blue on t re 
©m wore it on the forehead, others on the are: i 
had a double horizontal beam, the vertical line runn 
tattoo-marks: it 
faces. Most of th 
of these crosses 
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