*6 COOK’s VOYAGE, 
* l of thefe young ladies will think themfelves honoured byyour- 
“ addreffes, but you muft firft make me a fuitable prefent, 
“ and you muft then come and lleep with us on ftvore, for 
day-light muft by no means be a witnefs of what paftes be.. 
“ tween you.” 
I have already obferved, that in perfonal cleanlinefs they are 
not quite equal to our friends at Otaheite ; beeaufe, not having 
the advantage of fo warm a cjimate, they do not fo often go in- 
to the watery but the moil; difguftful thing about them is the 
oil, with which, like the iflanders, they anoint their hair : it 
}s certainly tfie fat either of fiih or birds, melted down, and 
though the better fort have it freih, their inferiors ufe that 
which is rancid, and conlequently are almoft as difagreeable to 
the fmell as a Hottentot; neither are their heads free from 
Vermin, though we obferved that they were furniihed with 
combs, both of bone and wood : thefe combs are fometimes 
worn, ftuck upright in the hair as an ornament, a falhion which 
at prefent prevails among the ladies of England. The men 
generally wear their beards fhort, and their hair tied upon the 
crown of the head, in a bunch, in which they flick the fea- 
thers of various birds, in different manners, according to their 
fancies ; fometimes one is placed on each fide of the temples, 
pointing forwards,, which, we thought, made a very difagree- 
able appearance. The women wear their hair fometimes 
propped fhort, and fometimes flowing; over their fhoulders. 
The bodies of both fexes are marked with the black ftains 
called Amoco, by the fame method that is ufed at Otaheite, 
and called Tattowir.g ; but the men are more marked, and the 
womei lefs. The women in general ftain no part of their bo- 
dies but the lips, though fometimes they are marked with fmall 
black patches on other parts ; the men, on the contrary, feem 
to add fomething every year to the ornaments of the laft, fo that 
fome of them, who appeared to be of an advanced age, were 
almoft covered from head to foot. Befides the Amoco, they 
have marks imprefied by a method unknown to us, of a very ex- 
traordinary kind : they are furrows of about a line deep, and a 
line broad, fuch as appear upon the bark of a tree which has 
been cut through, after a year’s growth : the edges of thefe 
furrows are afterwards indented by the fame method, and be- 
ing perfectly black, they make a raoft frightful appearance. 
The faces of the old men are almoft covered with thefe marks ; 
thofe who are very young, black only their Ups like the women ; 
when they are fomewhat older, they have generally a black 
patch upon one cheek, and over one eye, and fo proceed gra- 
dually, that they may grow old and honourable together : but 
though we could not but be difgufted with the horrid Deformi- 
ty which thefe ftains and furrows produced in the “ human 
h face divine,” we could not but admire the dexterity and art 
