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from the hand to the elbow, made of woven grass, 

 to defend the arm from the rebound of the string. 



Seewai, Mammoos, Keouck, and Duppa went off 

 to the ship with us. I shewed Duppa some plates 

 of animals and shells. Most of the animals he called 

 " omai,'* or dogs ; but to the deer he gave another 

 name, as if acquainted with one. To the shells he 

 gave a great variety of names, of which a list is 

 given in the vocabulary. They have a few dogs 

 among them, not greatly differing from those of 

 Australia, but apparently more thoroughly domesti- 

 cated. Several of them were white. 



March 30. — This morning some canoes came off 

 to us, in which were one or two women. One man 

 had lost the whole of his nose from a cancerous or 

 cutaneous disease, with which several of them were 

 more or less affected. It usually shewed itself on 

 the lips or face, or about the pit of the stomach, 

 where it sometimes formed a complete circle of 

 ulcers. Dr. Muirhead said it was a kind of lupus, 

 or " noli me tangere." Besides this disease, swollen 

 legs and enlargement of the limbs, called, I believe, 

 elephantiasis, were very common. There were also 

 several cases of enlargement, apparently from rup- 

 ture. They brought several bunches of plantains, 

 but as it appeared that each bunch belonged to a 

 different person, and that each wanted an axe for 

 his bunch, and we could not afford these terms, we 

 let them take them ashore again. 



In the afternoon I went round with Lieut. Risk 



