LIFE IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 



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Many of these natives pierce and gradually distend the lobe 

 of the ear, and enlarge it by degrees until at length it attains an 

 enormous size. On San Cristoval a circular disk of soft, white 



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wood, from two inches to two inches and a half in diameter, is 

 1 carried in the hole, but at Rubiana the hole was kept stretched by 

 ] pieces of sago-palm leaf, or pandanus leaf, which were bent into 



