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fatter east, the tattooing 1s said to be “ simply perfect ”’? and 
to leave upon the mind the effect of clothing. ‘Married 
women have a necklace or chain tattooed round the neck ; 
each pattern has a distinct name. It is done to please the 
future husband, who has to pay liberally for it.’ At South 
Cape, says Mr. Cuatmers, the women ‘tattoo themselves 
all over their faces and bodies and make themselves look 
very ugly, ”’ shewing either an inferiority im art on the part 
of the South Cape people, or a diversity of taste between the 
two authors. ‘Tattoo-marks on the chest and back of a chief 
indicate severally a life violently taken. 
When in mourning for a relative the body is blackened over 
and besmeared with ashes, and the chest and shoulders, and 
sometimes the entire person, are enveloped in fine net-work. 
A widow will sometimes remain in mourning for five years, 
during which period, it is said, she wears no ornaments and 
performs no ablutions. A mother in mourning for her daugh- 
ter will wear round her neck all the ornaments once the pro- 
perty of the deceased, and along with them the jawbone taken 
from the unburied body. The latter incident must be looked 
upon, however, as a charm to avert the evil infiuence of the 
spirit of the deceased rather than any token of mourning, for 
in another place Mr. Cuatmers describes one of his euides 
(at Stacy Island) as wearing, as an armlet, the jawbone of a 
man whom he had killed A eaten, “ Te others strutted 
about with human bones daneling from their hair and about 
their necks.” Similarly, it may be doubted if the “i immense 
necklace,” seen by Mr. Gru, slung over the left shoulder of a 
woman (consisting of the vertebre of her deceased brother ), 
was really worn “as a mark of affection,’ and the five widows 
of one husband who carried about, each of them, a portion 
of his remains, the eldest carrying the skull in a basket, 
were probably guided by some superstition which the Eu- 
ropean observer did not fathom 
Cannibalism, though not universal, is general. ‘The Stacy 
Islanders boasted of having killed and eaten ten of their 
enemies from the mainland, and the house of the chief was 
hung with the skulls of the enemies eaten by himself and 
his people. Among these people a cannibal feast, to which 
