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MANNERS with a kind of ochre y in Tanna they fometi'mes laid on their faces 



black and ^vhite paint, in oblique alternating bands ;■ the hair was- 

 fometimes divided into a great number of firings,, not thicker thaiv. 



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d wraps in fir 



of the bark- of a bindweed 



(convolvulus ) which gave their heads a very odd appearance ; the- 

 «irs were generally pierced, and ornamented' with^ rings of Tor- 

 toife-fhellj nay, in New- Caledonia and Eafler-Ifland, we found 

 the hole enlarged to fuch a fize, that four or five fingers might 

 eafily pafs through, and? the under part hung down almofl to the 

 flioulders. Thefe preternatural apertures were commonly diftended 

 by fcrolls of the elaflic fugar-canc-leaves, or Ibaded with huge ear- 

 rings, fometimes amounting to eighteen in number. The inhabi- 

 tants of the Friendly -illands had the ear perforated by two holes, 

 through which they thruft, horizontally, a piece of bamboo reed, 

 or a cylinder of tortoife-fliell, or other fhell. In Mallicollo and Tan- 

 na, feveral men had th^feptum nariuni perforated, and the hole filled 



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with a cylindrical flone 5 the heads of mofl of the men were bare ; 



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that of women often covered with a leaf of the arum efcukntuniy 

 or the draccntium periufu?n^ or only furrounded by a fillet, or firing. 

 In New- Caledonia, many men had high cylindrical black caps, 

 made of fplit bamboos, and coco-nut-core, which gave them a mar- 

 tial appearance ; nor had feveral of thefe nations forgotten to orna- 

 ment their bodies, by punduring them, in various figures, and fil- 



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