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features vary more than in any country in the same 
state of civilization. The mummies are covered 
with the same wampum work that is common 
among the Tartars. Tat to wing is as common 
among the Arabs, as among the islanders of the 
South Sea. The women are generally tattowed on 
the chin with perpendicular lines, descending 
from the under lip, as is practised by the women 
on the north-west coast of America. The nails 
are stained red, as among the Cochin-Chinese and 
northern Tartars. The Russian and Greek dresses 
resemble each other, and both the Greek and Rus- 
sian women wear a fillet round the temples. The 
same machines are used for diversion as in Russia, 
consisting of a large wheel, in the extremities of 
which seats are suspended, in which people are 
whirled over and under each other. Their music 
consists of a drum and pipe, both of which resem- 
ble these instruments in the South Seas. Their 
drum is the Otaheite drum ; their pipe is of cane, 
consisting of a long and short tube joined. When- 
ever the women are present, they make a noise 
with their mouths like frogs, particularly at wed- 
dings. The Egyptian dogs are of the same spe- 
cies found at Otaheite. Among the Arabs he 
saw a white woman, like the white Indians in the 
South Sea islands, and Isthmus of Darien. The 
Arabs engage with a long spear, like the New Zea- 
landers. Those that inhabit the desert have an 
