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REMARKS 



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THE 



MANNERS 

 COMPARED 



inhabitants of the iiland of Tanna, were 



no means contented 



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with the red colour ; they improved upon it, by adding the fliining 



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black, of a kind of black lead, or black wadd ( Moly b diBfium plum- 

 bago. Linn.) and a white prepared of fliell lime, and then laying 

 each on alternately, in oblique broad ftripes a-crofs their faces. In 

 the Admiralty-iiles, Captain Ca^rteret faw likewife people, who had 



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marked their faces with white flreaks. * 



The ear-laps of the people at Eafler-illand, and the^ New*- 



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Hebrides, were diftended to. an enormous fize, fo as to hang down 

 to their fhoulders : they ufed for that purpofe fome fcrolls of the 

 elaflic leaf of fugar-cane, and this is much affedled by feveral na- 

 tions in America, and likewife at Siam, where they ufe the fame 

 fcrolls of leaves, in order to aggrandife the hole y nor is- this cuf- 



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tom unknown in Africa, where feveral negro women ufe large 



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folid ear-rings, of fix inches diameter; -f- and in the North of Afia 

 the Mungalic tribes wear ear-rings of about a foot long. On the 

 coaft of Malabar the holes in the ears are fo large, that a man's 

 hand may pafs through with eafe; nor is this a wonder, as their 

 ear-rings weigh fometimes above two ounces each. 



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* Havvkeuvoith, vol, i. p. 6"o_j. 

 •j- Voyage de Brue. 



% Dillon's Voyage to the Eafl-Indies : EngUfli tranflation, London 8vo, 1698. p. 107 



