chap, v.] BOKKE PROPOSES TO IMPROVE MRS BAKER . 217 
Her s men were very bad people ; that they had burnt 
and plundered one of her villages * and that one of the 
Latookas who had been wounded in the fight by a 
bullet had just died, and they were to dance for him 
to-morrow, if we would like to attend. She asked 
many questions; how many wives I had? and was 
astonished to hear that I was contented with one. 
This seemed to amuse her immensely, and she laughed 
heartily with her daughter at the idea. She said that 
my wife would be much improved if she would extract 
her four front teeth from the lower jaw, and wear the 
red ointment on her hair, according to the fashion of 
the country ; she also proposed that she should pierce 
her under lip, and wear the long pointed polished 
crystal, about the size of a drawing pencil, that is the _ 
a thingin the Latooka country. No woman among 
the tribe who has any pretensions to be a “ swell ” 
would be without this highly prized ornament, and one 
of my thermometers having come to an end I broke 
the tube into three pieces, and they were considered as 
presents of the highest value, to be worn through the 
perforated under lip. Lest the piece should slip through 
the hole in the lip, a kind of rivet is formed by twine 
bound round the inner extremity, and this protruding 
into the space left by the extraction of the four front 
teeth of. the lower jaw, entices the tongue to act upon 
