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their attention, and to drown any cries that they could poffibly have 

 uttered ; but they made if a point of honour to bear the pain without 

 a murmur. 



Some other peculiarities, however, were obferved. The blood that 

 iffued from the lacerated gum was not wiped away, but fuffered to 

 run down the breaft, and fall upon the head of the man on whofe 

 moulders the patient fat, and whofe name was added to his. This 

 blood remained dried upon the heads of the men, and breafts of the 

 boys for feveral days. The boys were alfo termed Ke-bar-ra, a name 

 which has reference in its conftrucYion to the fingular inftrument 

 ufed on this occafion, Ke-bah in their language fignifying a rock or 

 ftone. 



No. 8. — This Plate reprefents the young men arranged and fitting 

 upon the trunk of a tree, as they appeared in the evening after the 

 operation w r as over. The man is Cole-be, who is applying a broiled 

 fiih to his relation Nan-bar-ray's gum, which had fuffered from the 

 ftroke more than any of the others. 



Suddenly, on a fignal being given, they all darted up, and rufhed 

 into the town, driving before them men, women, and children, who 

 were glad to get out of their way. They were now received into the 

 clafs of men ; were privileged to wield the fpear and the club, and 

 to oppofe their perfons in combat ; and might now feize fuch females 

 as they chofe for wives. All this, however, muft be underftood to 

 import, that by having fubmitted to the operation, having endured 

 the pain of it without a .murmur, and having loft a front tooth, they 

 received a qualification which they were to excrcife whenever their 

 .years and their flrength 'mould be equal to it. 



Ben-nil-long's filler, and Da-ring-ha, Cole -be's wife, hearing the 

 Author exprefs a great deiire to be pofleffed of fome of thefe teeth, 

 procured three of them for him. They were given with much fecrecy, 

 and great dread of being obferved, and with an injunction that it 



fliould 



