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MR- LED YARD'S 
^ ' I have feen an Abyflinian woman and a Bengal man — the 
colour is the fame m both; fo are then* features andperfons 
I ha\^e feen a fmall mummy ; — it has what I call wampum 
work on it. It appears as common here as among the Tartars.. 
Tatowing is as prevalent among the Arabs of this place as among 
the South Sea Iflanders. k is a little curious, that the women here 
are mxOre generally than in any other part of the world tato wed 
on the chin, with perpendicular lines defcendmg from the under 
lip to the chin, like the women on the North Well Coaft of Ame- 
rica. It is alfo a cuftom here to ftain the nails red, like the 
Cochin Chinefe, and the Northern Tartars. The malk or veil 
that the women here wear, refembles exadly that worn by the 
Priefls at Otaheite^ and thofe feen at Sandwich Iflands. 
^' I have not yet feen the Arabs make ufe of a tool like our axe 
or hatchet ; but what they ufe for fuch purpofes as we do our 
hatchet and axe, is in the form of an adze, and is a form we 
found moft agreeable to the South Sea Iflanders. I fee no in- 
llance of a tool formed defignedly for the ufe of the right or left 
hand particularly, as the cotogon is among the Yorkertic Tartars, 
There is certainly a very remarkable affinity between the 
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