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teeth, and hence comes the hideous disfigurement of the 

 mouth which may be seen in nearly all adults in these 

 islands. 



The women usually wear their long black hair tied m 

 a loose knot, called botto, on the top of the head. Many 

 of the men I saw had shaved the back of the head, and 

 wore only a fringe of hair, called paM, reaching from 

 ear to ear over the forehead. In some districts the children 

 have the hair shaved off a patch on the top of the head, 

 which they call kusi. The custom of shaving off part of 

 the hair of young children is found in many other parts 

 of the Malay archipelago. Thus the missionaries Wilken 

 and Schwartz relate that amongst the natives of the Bolang 

 Mongondu, which lies to the west of Minahassa, the same 

 custom prevails, and the lock of hair is hung up in a young 

 coco-nut under the front roof of the hut (90) . 



The opportunities I had of learning the Sangirese lan- 

 guages were so few that I must refrain from suggesting on 

 my own responsibility any possibilities of their relationships, 

 and for the same reason I must withhold from publication 

 the short vocabularies of words I collected for my own use. 

 The gospel of St. Luke has been translated into Sangirese 

 by Mr. Kelling, of Tagulandang, and published by our 

 British and Foreign Bible Society in London, and I under- 

 stand that the whole Bible is now being translated into 

 the same language by the daughter of Mr. Steller, of 

 Manganitu. 



