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PIIYSTCAL CHARACTERISTICS. 
The national mark is triangular, tattoed on each 
temple in the males, while the softer sex have various 
starlike distinctions on the breast and abdomen. The 
women are large, and inclined to “ embonpoint'^ the 
eflFect probably of the fattening process they go through 
to arrive at the Ibu -standard of female beauty. The 
countenance of these people is at once expressive of good 
nature and restless inquisitiveness. 
The religious superstitions of Aboh are as various and 
degrading as at anyplace we visited, and the Fetiches, or 
idols, as numerous ; every hut having one or more, as well 
as amulets, or charms, suspended from sticks in the 
quadrangular courts. Many of the idols had pots of 
water and food placed near them. 
The accompanying sketch is taken from a Ju-ju, 
presented to Doctor Me William by one of Obi’s sons. 
It is carved in hard brown wood, and represents 
