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Painting the face or body does not seem to be 

 practised here^ but the men are usually tatooed on 

 the breast, cheeks, forehead, and arms, also occa- 

 sionally on other places. Their tatooing-, however, 

 is much fainter and less profuse than among- the 

 women, every visible part of whose skin is g-enerally 

 marked with a g^reat variety of patterns, the most 

 usual style among- them consisting- in series of double 

 parallel or converg-ing lines an inch or more apart, 

 the intervals being- occupied by small fig-ures, or 

 UTeg-ular hnes, with detached rectilinear fig-ures 

 fancifully filled up. The women wear a petticoat of 

 shreds of pandanus leaf, plaited above into a waist- 

 band and below reaching- nearly to the knee. 



They broug-ht off little with them for barter 

 besides bows and arrows, and as before appeared 

 perfectly ignorant of the use of iron. A few cocoa- 

 nuts, plantains, and mangos were obtained from 

 them, but they had no yams. Nearly every canoe 

 which came alongside contained several large baked 

 earthen pots of good construction, some with wide, 

 others with narrow mouths, and a third sort shaped 

 like a saucer. Besides bows and arrows, we saw 

 many spears, mostly of small size and usually finely 

 jagged or barbed towards the end, but of very 

 inferior workmanship, also some shields, one of 

 which may be described.* It measures 33 inches 

 in length by 14 in width, and in shape resembles a 

 fiddle, being rounded at the ends and slightly 



* Figured at p. 279, vol. i. 



