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obferved bracelets of coco-nut-fliell and fmall plaited iliell-work, 

 and we faw the hair of the natives at Namocka and the Friendly- 



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iiles, powdered white, blue or orange; the v/hite is no doubt 



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made of fhell-lime, the orange extra(fled from turmeric, which 



affords a very ftrong and deep colour, but the blue we could never 



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obtain : nor learn how 



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The Papooas wore 



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rings in the ears, in hoth noftrils, and the perforated griftle between 



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the noftrils. They ufed bracelets on their arms above the elbow and 



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wrift, and their hair was powdered with fliell-lime.* Capt. Carteret 

 obferved that the inhabitants of the ides called by him New Ireland 

 and the Admiralty illands, pov/dered both their hair and their beards . f 

 And others have obferved the natives of Garret Dennis lile to 

 their hair of divers colours, viz. red, white, and yellow. J 

 Tripolitan ladies in Barbary ilrew the hair of their children 



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ermillion. § 



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Gauls employed the affiftance of 



to heighten the r^d colour of their hair, and the chiefs flrewed them 



the duil of gold 



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ch luxury was likewife adopted by 



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Jans la ColMion da Voyages qv.l Qnt fervi pair VEtalVJfoner.t eh 



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Compagnledes Indcs, vol. iv. p. 648. 



+ Hawkefworth, vol. i. p. S99» and 604. 

 % Dampier's Voyage, vol. iii. p. 202. 

 § Etat des Rcyaumes de Barbane. 

 jl Dlod, SiG. lib. V. p; 305. edit, Wechel. 



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