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from which he had himself before shrunk ; but 
as I held the glass within the focus distance^ 
no painful sensation was produced ; after which 
he presented me his own arm, and allowed me 
to burn it as long as I chose to hold the glass, 
without flinching in the least, which, with greater 
reason, equally astonished us in our turn. 
They were all furnished, as has been before 
mentioned, with a cloak of kangaroo-skin, which 
is always taken oflf and spread under them when 
they lie down. Their hair was dressed in different 
ways; sometimes it was clotted with red pig- 
ment and seal oil, clubbed up behind, and bound 
round with a fillet of opossum-fur, spun into a 
long string, in which parrot-feathers, escalop 
shells, and other ornaments being fixed in dif- 
ferent fanciful ways, gave the wearer a warlike 
appearance. 
Their faces, and sometimes their whole bodies, 
were daubed over with a mixture of seal oil and 
red pigment, that caused a most disgusting ef- 
fluvia; but the only colouring matter that our 
friend Jack used, after his acquaintance with us, 
was the carpenter’s chalk, which he thought par- 
ticularly ornamental. 
Bracelets of dog-tails or kangaroo-skin were 
commonly worn, and one had several escalop 
shells hanging about him, the noise of which, as 
1821. 
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