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they have in common with the Dourga tribe, although 
they are by no means as wild and repulsive as the 
latter. The greater portion go entirely naked, but 
some of them wear a piece of bark, or a strip of a 
coarse kind of cloth made of the husk of the cocoa-nut, 
or with a piece of bamboo. They ornament the neck, 
arms, and waist with hog'a teeth, and some wear brace- 
lets and bangles {or Icglefes) of twisted rattans, also a 
neck ornament of a sort of net- work of rushes, very 
cleverly woven. A couple of plaited peaked caps were 
obtained from thera by barter, but we never saw them 
wear them, except on one ocea&ion, when two of them, 
at onr request, put them on while they were being 
sketched by Messrs. Van Oort and Van Kaalten. Each 
of the Outanatas seemed desirous of oniamenting himself 
in some way different from his neighbour* Some had 
email scariitcatious [likleekens] on the body, more espe- 
cially on the arms, breast, and stomach j and which, they 
informed us, were made by cutting the skin and flesh 
with sharp stones, and afterwards burning the part, which 
caused the flesh, when the wound healed, to rise above 
the general surface of the skin to the thickness of a 
finger, 
" The women arc of the niidiUe stature, aud are gene- 
rally somewhat darker in complexion than the men. We 
alrefidy stated, is commonly employed hy the Butch to designate 
"negroes." It is is-ell known that the true Arab has Caucasmn 
features, hut so many negro slaves have been introduced into 
.Arabia from the cast coast of Africa, that they probably outuumber 
their importers, m is i^aid to be the case also iu the Brazilg.— 
