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the peculiar fashion of extracting the hair of the beard and chin 
of men, also of the eyeteeth of women of a certain age; the pecu- 
har ceremony of drinking at the same time, lip to lip; the comical 
fashion of piercing the lobes of the ears and wearing pieces 
of bamboo or cuttlefish therein—similar customs being the vogue 
in Borneo, also in New Caledonia and elsewhere in South Seas. 
It has not been my lot to witness any case of anthropophagy, and 
I have always understood that, in the hills of Formosa, there is 
no occasion for the exhibition of any cannibalistic tendency, there 
being plenty of deer, wild boar, &c. in the island, but there is no 
doubt that certain tribes (not known to me) have been accused of 
eating the bodies of their enemies under extreme circumstances, 
and I have understood that even particular friends of mine have 
not hesitated to stew and eat the brains of a foe previous to hang- 
ing the skull up as arelic of prowess and in case of young men, as 
a proof of manhood. Head-hunting is very common on the borders, 
and J have known men to lay in wait behind rocks for days on the 
chance of getting a « pot-shot”’ at a Chinaman. Skull-preserving, 
teeth and tusk-wearing are as common as among the Haraforas of 
the Indian Isles, and in the same way that they enact that a man 
must take the head of an enemy before he is entitled to marry, so 
do certain of the northern tribes of Formosa. A full account of 
manners and customs of hill tribes might assist very much in elucida- 
ting the problem before us, but as this paper has been extended 
beyond the limits originally intended, I must leave a description of 
them to form a subject for another paper. 
JOHN DODD. 
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