200 PURCHASE KOIYOP'S WIG. 



arrows, and other implements than with their fruits 

 and vegetables, of which they did not seem to have 

 any great stock to spare. 



Koiyop being down in the gun-room, I persuaded 

 him to sell me his wig, which he told me was made 

 of the hair of young Duppa of Erroob. He wore 

 his own black hair short under his wig, which he 

 seemed rather reluctant to part with, asking for a 

 looking-glass, " perper," to see how he looked with- 

 out it, and saying, " keimear naeg," "men laugh," 

 as if he thought they would laugh at him without 

 it.* For a good knife, however, he let me have 

 it; but the next day I found him provided with 

 another. 



At eleven o'clock I accompanied Captain Black- 

 wood in the Midge to visit Dowar and Waier. 

 After passing one or two sunken patches of coral, 

 we beat up in a clear deep passage between Maer 

 and Dowar. At this end Maer slopes very steeply 

 down from the summit of the ridge into the sea 

 without any beach. Dowar is likewise very steep, f 

 but has a small sandy flat at its northern end, on 

 which were some huts in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, 

 and several people awaiting our approach. We 

 continued our course, however, for Waier, which is 



* This wig is now in the British Museum. 



f They called the peak both of Maer and Dowar " pasaer," as 

 they did that of Erroob, so that it is probably their general name 

 for a hill. 



