IN TIMOR-LAUT. 



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Buginese and Macassar traders also carry on a considerable 

 traffic in slaves, bringing them from Halmaheira and the coasts 

 of Borneo and Celebes. In this way also may be accounted 

 for some of the race-mingling. 



The clothing of the men consists of a narrow T-shaped loin- 

 cloth, with the ends which hang down in front decorated with red, 

 black and white patchwork, and adorned with sections of cowrie- 

 shells and with beads. The women wear a short sarong (Malay 

 petticoat), artistically woven by themselves out of the fibres of 

 the Aloan-palm (Borassus jlabelliformifi), suspended by a broad 

 belt made from the stem of its leaf and fastened by an elaborately 

 carved buckle of wood which frequently in married women has 

 been the gift of her husband at the timewhen herpurchase-money 

 was agreed on, possibly a sort of engagement token. Armlets 

 cut from conus shells, of brass, of ivory, or 

 of wood, carved like those worn by the Hill 

 Dyaks of Borneo, are worn by both sexes ; 

 while the women have in addition toe-rings 

 and anklets of brass. Round the helix and 

 in the lobe of their ears the women wear a 

 graduated series of silver or of gold lor- 

 lora or rings, which in the case of the men 

 is often so heavy as to break away the 

 cartilage. The patterns of these ear orna- 

 ments are exceedingly chaste, especially 

 those carved out of bone, of ivory and 

 ebony combined, or of the tooth of the rare 

 and highly-prized dugong (Halicore). 



Both sexes tatoo a few simple devices, 

 circles, stars and pointed crosses, on the breast, on the brow, on 

 the cheek, and on the wrists ; and scar, with the utmost equani- 

 mity, their arms and shoulders with red hot stones in imitation 

 of small-pox marks, as a charm that will ward off, they think, 

 that disease. I did not, however, see any one variola-marked, 

 nor could I learn of an epidemic of the disease having appeared 

 among them. As it was considered by the women a mark of 

 beauty to have filed teeth,, some of them had only a narrow 

 rim left protruding from their gums. 



The men spend a life of savage indolence or indulgence, 

 the women alone are always busily occupied. In the morning, 



EABKINO. 



