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What flat, and rather extended at the nostrils, partakes of theOtaheitan CHAP, 
form, as do the lips, which are broad, and strongly sulcated. Their 
ears are moderately large, and the lobes are invariably united to the D- 
cheek ; they are generally perforated when young, for the reception 
of flowers, a very common custom among the natives of the South Sea 
Islands. The hair, in the first generation, is, with one exception only, 
deep black, sometimes curly, but generally straight ; they allow it to 
grow long, keep it very clean, and always well supplied with cocoa-nu 
oil. Whiskers are not common, and the beards are thin. e ee , 
are regular and white ; but are often, in the males, disfigured by a de- 
ficiency in enamel, and by being deeply furrowed across. They have 
generally large heads, elevated in the line of the occiput. A line passe 
above the eyebrows, over the ears, and round the back of the head, in a 
line with the occipital spine, including the hair, measured twenty-two 
inches ; another, twenty-one inches and three-quarters ; and in Po y 
Young, surnamed Big-head, twenty-three inches,— the hair would make 
a difierence of about three-quarters of an inch. The coronal region is 
full ; the forehead of good height and breadth, giving an apeeable 
openness to the countenance; the middle of the coronal suture is rather 
raised above the surrounding parts. Their complexion, in the first 
generation, is, in general, a dark gipsy hue: there are, however, excep- 
tions to this ; some are fairer, and others, Joseph Christian in particulai, 
much darker*. , 
The skin of these people, though in such robust health, compare 
with our own, always felt cold ; and their pulses were considerably lower 
than ours. Mr. Collie examined several of them : in the forenoon he 
found George Young’s only sixty; three others, in the aftenmon, after 
dinner, were sixty-eight, seventy-two, and seventy-six; while those ot 
the officers who stood the heat of the climate best were above eighty. 
Constant exposure to the sun, and early training to labour, make these 
islanders look at least eight years older than they really are. 
The women are nearly as muscular as the men, and taller than the 
generality of their sex. Polly Young, who is not the tallest upon the 
* This man was idiotic, and differed so materially from the others in colonr that he is in 
all probability the offspring of the men of colonr who accompanied the mutineers to the island, 
and who, unless he be one, have left no progeny. 
