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MADKAS MOOKMAN. 



any thing but an agreeable appearance.* Its use 

 certainly does not impart (ublitional bi^auty to 

 the native females, who habituate themselves 

 to ftn equal extent to ikm^ of tfe% opposite 



There was an old native of Madras, a Moor- 

 man, forming one of the rajali's attencbints on 

 boiird, whose duty it was to vi^it siiips, and 

 report their arrival to bis highness, and also tO 

 ^tf^tiiL ^Mp Amif to aee tBe edi^o Ukm pn 

 board ; this individual had one of his Ii^d^ 

 rendered useless by a blow from a Klawano-, or 

 Malay sword. Besidcr^ the scar resultiun- from 

 this wound, there was an unreduced dislocation 



irfthe carpal ^tr^if Ae telniti imd triritc- 

 tarn of the radius^ which, being ^llQiii^^ m 



artificial joint had been formed : tlie cause of 

 this personal injury, he said, jirocf^eded from an 

 attack made upon a vessel he was in, by one 

 belonging lo Ae rajah Acb^eOt lis which 



* It is [ilso by a combinatiwi substances that the 

 Otaheitaiis produce a red Ay^&qm tlld ihut of a spe^j^s of 

 Jmi^f ^aflteilSfeMt tttnA l3ie iMVeft of a species of Ctrdut, 

 CftUed *« Ton.** 



f 1 hftve ^^t&ft $^6a on this coast, as well as m Java, small 

 bunches of i!he latetivfr &liSf^ laken from the spathe of the 

 Areka palm, placed as an omament «t the stem and bow$ of 

 ih« native boats. 



