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Guinea have their fkin flowered Hke damailc. * And in Decan the 

 women Hkewife have flowers cut into their flcfh on the forehead, 

 the arms and the breafl:, and the elevated fears are painted in colours, 

 and exhibit the appearance of flowered damaflc. -f 



The inhabitan 

 ftone in the Sep 

 rated in the nativ 



of Mallicollo and Tanna, wore a cylindrical 

 n narium ; and the fame part was found perfo- 



f New Holland, by Mr. B 



and Capt 



Cook, X but inftead of a fmall ftone, a bone of a bird five or fix 

 inches long, and nearly as thick as a man's finger, was thrufl into 

 the hole, and Dampier obferved likewife in the " men of New 



r 



Britain fuch long flicks thrufl: into the hole of the griftlc between 

 the noflrils. § In the Friendly ifles the natives had two holes made 



ap of th 



and they v/ore a fmall ftick fiiuck in thefc 



two holes ; the fame with a long flick were likewife found in th 



e 



f the inhab 





the Ifle of Garret Dennis 



coafl: 



of Nev/ Guinea. |1 The people of Tanna, Irromanga, and Mal- 

 licollo v/ore large ear-rings of turtle fhell of more than an inch in 



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diameter, and three quarters of an inch broad. On their arms wc 



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obferved 



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MANNERS 

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Pfevot Hiftoire des Vovafres, torn, a, 



f Tuvernicr's Voyage. 



% Hawkefworth, vol. ill. p. 575. 



§ Dampicr's Voyage, voL ili. p, 203, and '205 



■y Dampicr ibidem. 



