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forehead^ then combed out at leng-th^ and tied mid- 

 way with a string-, leaving- one part straight, and 

 the remainder frizzled out into a mop projecting 

 horizontally backwards. Some also had a long 

 pigtail hanging down behind, in one case decorated 

 with a bimch of dog's teeth at the end. Across the 

 forehead they wore fillets of small shells strung 

 together over a broad white band of some leafy sub- 

 stance. The septum of the nose was perforated, 

 and some wore a long straight nose-stick of bone 

 with black bands. AH our ^dsitors had their teeth 

 darkened with the practice of betel chewing, — we saw 

 them use the leaf of the betel pepper, the green areca 

 nut, and lime, the last carried in a small calabash 

 with a spatula. 



We had been becalmed aU the morning, but before 

 noon the sea-breeze set in from the S. S. E., and we 



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