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The intense heat—thermometer one hundred and six 
degrees—caused them to denude themselves entirely, except 
the breech-cloth, so that with the yellow, black and red 
' paint, they presented a motley appearance. 
They parted their hair from the centre of the forehead 
back to the crown, and made a streak of yellow, white or 
red, along the divide, a custom in which they were greatly 
assistetl by large beds of yellow and white clay, which they 
discovered in the valley some distance down the stream. 
I could not discover whether each had a distinct style of 
daubing himself, but suppose this to be the case, as all were 
different. 
A fat, chubby faced warrior, painted a fac simile of a saw 
“around his jaws in black, his cheeks red, his eye-lids white, 
and his forehead and divide of his hair yellow, smearing his 
body also,with yellow. | 
The invalid painted his face red, his eyelids white and 
strea a tits face with black, like a ribbed nose babboon. 
ee € painted one side black and the other yellow, con- 
tinuing the process down to his waist. Another daubed 
yellow on one side and red on the other, his eyelids white and 
streaks of black upon his cheeks, in imitation of snakes. The 
boys also painted themselves; and several of the women had 
cheeks and hair stained with red. In short, all that savage 
fancy could do to inerease savage ugliness was done, and a 
more diabolical, and at the same time ludicrous set, it would 
be hard to meet with. 
