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'vith it, and in a considerable proportion of these to a small space 
between the shoulders, appeared to create no alarm, and most probably 
called forth no curative application. The frequent and alternate ex- 
posure of the men to the salt water and rays of the sun, with a scanty 
supply of the anointing oil of the cocoa-nut, would favour the breaking- 
out of this cutaneous affection. The mats which they tied round 
their necks, and frequently allowed to hang down behind, whether 
through accident or design, would tend to avert the effects of exposure. 
A few had lost some of their front teeth ; and we saw one man, on the 
9th, with two un cicatrized and bare but clean w ounds, one before and 
uiiother behind the middle of the right deltoid muscle, w'here the flies 
Were feeding without molestation, and the person seemed almost uncon- 
scious of them and of the ulcers. No preternatural tumefaction denoted 
uny excess of inflammation. No unhealthy hue in the countenance of 
Rian or woman intimated any internal disease lurking w ithin the body.” 
^y far the greater part of the males go entirely naked, except a girdle, 
which is made of a banana-leaf split into shreds, and tied round the 
loins, not intended to answer the purpose of concealment ; and they 
differ from all other inhabitants of the Pacific in having no maro. 
Some wear a turban ; others a piece of paper cloth thrown over the 
shoulders. 
The huts of the Gambler Islanders are so small that they can only 
be intended as sleeping-places during bad weather : they are in length 
from eight or ten feet to fifteen, excepting the larger houses of the 
Rreghe ; they are built of the porou wood, and covered in with a 
pointed roof thatched over with the leaves of the palm-tree. In some 
fhe door is scarcely three feet high, and it is necessary to cieep on all 
fours to enter. On the inside they are neat, and the floor is covered 
with mats or grass. The larger huts of the village on Mount Duff are 
so constructed that one side can be conveniently removed, by which 
Rieans they are rendered cool and comfortable. 
The large house, or that of the areghe, was about thirty-nine feet 
in length by eighteen or twenty in width ; the pitch of the roof wms 
nbout tw'enty-five feet in height, and that of the perpendicular sides of 
tbe house about ten feet ; but these dimensions were obtained by 
