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bliflied all over the iilands of the South Sea, with this difFerence manners 



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only, that fome marked chiefly the face, as the people at New-Zee- 

 land; others imprinted indelible figures all over the body, as at 

 the Marquefas ; fome produced only large blotches on the buttocks, 

 which is chiefly cuflomary at the Society-ifles and Taheitee ; others 

 again have only a few black or blue fpots on their lips, which is 



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the cuflom of the women at New-Zeeland. Strange as this cuf- 

 torn feems to be, it has been however received among many nations 

 the Tungufes, * and the Greenlanders -f- fow into the iieih of the 

 faces of their children, various figures, by a thread dipped into a 



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black fubftance. The ancient Huns formerlv were ufed to make in- 

 ciHons into their cheeks, in order to prevent the growth of 



the beard. J 



Thou 2- h" this feems not to 



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the 



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which prompted the New-Zeelanders to cut various 



deep 



figures and fcrolls into their faces, but rather that of the very 

 obvious ones to making their afpe£t more terrible to their 



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enemies, and inuring the young men to endure pain 3 it has 

 however, in the courfe of nature, produced the fame effe(ft, and al- 



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mofl eraclicated the hair of the beard. In all America the favages 

 arc ufed to pundiure fome part of the body with black figures. 



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'^ Gmelm's Voyage to Sibiria, vol. i. p. 77, and vol. 11. p. 648, &:c, &c. 



-j- Crantz Hiftory of Greenlandj voL i. p. 138. 



j Ammianus X'darcelliUUSj lib. xxxu c- 2. and Jordanes Hill. Get, 



