chap, v.] BOKKE PROPOSES TO IMPROVE MRS. BAKER. ]4J 
I secured her portrait in my sketch book, obtaining a 
very correct likeness. She told us that Makommed 
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. 
BOKK13—WIFE OF MOY, CHIEF OF LATOOKA. 
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 s 
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 
