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the weapons and tools of the father, pafs to his male chil¬ 
dren. Theft, when to a confiderable amount, and the 
criminal is incapable of making reditution, is liable to be 
punifhed by death. Murder is punifhable by retaliation 5 
the murderer is delivered to the relations of the de- 
ceafed, who may put him to death. But thefe crimes are 
very rare. 
In cafes of adultery, where the wife is the offender, 
the injured hufband has a right to feize the effects of the 
paramour, and fometimes punifhes his wife by cutting off 
her hair. When the hufband offends, the wife has a 
right to quit him, and to return to her parents’ houfe ; but 
in this date of reparation fhe is not allowed to marry ano¬ 
ther ; however, in both thefe cafes, the matter is gene¬ 
rally made up, and the parties reconciled; and we were 
informed that inftances of their occurrence were very 
unfrequent. Simple fornication by unmarried perfons is 
neither a crime nor a difgrace ; and a young woman is 
rather liked the better, and more defined in marriage, for 
having borne a child ; fometimes they have two or three, 
when, upon a marriage taking place, the children are 
left with the parents of their mother. The date of flavery 
is unknown to thefe people. 
The cudom of tattooing is general throughout thefe 
idands. They call it in their language teetee. They begin 
to imprint thefe marks on boys of feven years of age, but 
they only trace at fird a few outlines. As they advance in 
years, and go to war, they fill up the marks, the right to 
which depends on having killed an enemy. Such is the 
account they gave us; and it is probable enough that this 
eudom may originally have been intended as a mark of 
military didin&ion ; but fticli original intention cannot 
at prefent have place, as the marks are common to every 
individual, and wars fcarcely occur once in a generation. 
The figures imprinted are the fame throughout, or the 
variation, if any, is very triding, excepting that, in fome 
of the young men, the outline only of the broad mark on 
the bread is traced, but this is filled up as they grow 
older. The women have a dar imprinted on each flioul- 
der, and generally fome fmall marks on the back of the 
hands. Thefe marks are imprinted with a pointed indru- 
ment, confiding of a brafs wire fixed perpendicularly into 
a piece of dick about eight inches in length : this piece is 
duck with another fmall long dick with repeated light 
drokes. The pigment ufed for this purpofe is made of 
the fmoke collected from a fpecies of refin, which is 
mixed with water; the operator takes a dem of dried 
grafs, or a fine piece of dick,' and, dipping the end in the 
pigment, traces on the {kin the outline of the figure, with 
great deadinefs and dexterity; then, dipping the brafs 
point in the fame compofition, he with very quick and 
light drokes drives it into the fkin, tracing the outline 
before drawn, which leaves an indelible mark. Now, 
as all the men are marked according to the fame pat¬ 
tern nearly, if any people fhould be difcovered among 
whom this cudom prevails, and whofe bodies are tattooed, 
generally, with figures of the fame kind, it would afford 
no flight prefumption of a common origin. “ I have 
therefore (fays Mr. Crifp) accompanied this account with 
a fketfh of a man and a woman of thefe iflands, as alio 
a drawing of the inftruments ufed in making thefe marks.” 
For the engraving, and many other curious particulars, 
we mud refer our readers to the volume we have quoted, 
which contains alfo a pretty copious vocabulary of the lan¬ 
guage. See alfo Marfden’s Sumatra ;and Stavorinus, vol. iii. 
POGIN'SK, a town of Rudia, in the government of 
Pfkov, on the Louvat: fixteen miles north-north-wed of 
Veliki Luki. 
POGLI'ZA, a didrifl of Dalmatia, between the river 
Cetina and the Adriatic. 
POG'NY, a town ,of France, in the department of 
Marne, or. the Marne: nine miles fouth.-fouth-e.ad of 
Chalons fur Marne. 
POGOIA'NA, a town of European Turkey, i,n Mace¬ 
donia: nine miles north of Saloniki. 
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PO'GON, a harbour of the Trcezenians, on the coad 
of the Peloponnefus. It received this name on account of 
its appearing to cqme forward before the town of Trce- 
zene,as the beard (Truyuv) does from the chin. 
POGO'NIA,/. in botany. See Arethusa divaricata, 
vol. ii. 
POGO'NIUS, /. in ornithology, a genus of birds of 
the order of picas; indituted by Dr. Shaw. It includes 
the Bucco dubius of Latham and two others. See 
Bucco. 
PO'GOR, a river on the wed coad of the ifland of Bor¬ 
neo, which runs into the fea in lat. o. 5. fouth. 
POGO'RE, a town of Germany, in the county of Go- 
ritz; four miles wed of Goritz. 
POGROMNA'IA RE'CA, a fmall river of Afiatic 
Rudia, in the didrift of Nertfchinfk, on the banks of 
which there is a fource of mineral water, which is em¬ 
ployed with fuccefs in feveral difeafes. 
PO'HAN, a town ofPerfia, in the province of Laridan; 
fifteen miles north-ead of Tarem. 
POHERBIC'ZE, a town of Ruffian Poland; thirty- 
five miles ead-north-ead of Winnicze. 
PQHL, an idand of the Baltic, on the coad of Meck- 
lenburgh-Schwerin. It is nearly oppofite to the town of 
Wifmar, and contains 1200 inhabitants. It belonged 
formerly to Sweden, but was purchafed in 1803 by the 
duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, 
PO'HLEN, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtland; four 
miles north-north-ead of Plauen. 
PO'HLIA, f. [fo named by Hedwig, after his friend 
John Ehrenfreid Pohl, phyfician to the eleftor of Saxony, 
and profedorof botany at Leipfic, who was born in 1746 ; 
and publiflied, in 1771, a Differtation on the Structure 
and Figure of the Leaves of Plants, which may be found 
in Uderi’s Dileftus Opufc. Bot. i. 145.] In botany, a 
genus of theclafs cryptogamia, order mufci. Generic cha- 
rafters—Capfules ovate-oblong, placed on an obconical 
narrower apophyfis; peridome double, outer with fixteen 
broadidi teeth, inner with a fixteen-parted membrane. 
Males gemmaceous, on a didinft plant. There is but 
one fpecies, 
Pohlia elongata, which is the Bryura elongatum of 
Withering. It is a nearly-fimple mofs; leaves linear 
lanceolate, thicker at the margin, fpread ; capfule cylin¬ 
drical tapering to the bafe, inclined; lid conic. Hedivig, L 
f. 36. 
PO'HOFT a town of Lithuania; fixteen miles louth 
of Pinfk. 
POHR'LITZ, or Pohorzelitz, a town of the Andrian 
dates, in Moravia, circle of Brunn. Population 1400. 
POJAUHTECAT'L, a mountain of Mexico, whi,ch 
difcharged fmoke from the year 1545 to 1565, and then 
ceafed: its form is conical, and it is fo lofty that navi¬ 
gators perceive it from the gulf of Mexico, at the dil- 
tance of 150 miles; forty miles wed-fouth-wed of Vera 
Cruz, 
POICTIE'RS. See Poitiers. 
POICTOU'. See Poitou. 
POIG, a river which runs into the gulf of Triede about 
one mile north of Triede. 
POl'GNANCY, f. [from poignant.] The power of 
di inulating the palate ; fharpnels.—I lat quietly down at 
my morfel, adding only a principle of hatred to all fuc- 
ceeding n.eafures by way of fauce ; and one point of con¬ 
duct in the dutchefs’s life added much poignancy to it. 
Swift. —The power of irritation ; afperity. 
POI'GNANT, adj. [Fr. from the Lat. pungere, to 
pierce.] Sharp; penetrating. The primaryJenfe. 
His poynant fpeere he thrud with puiffant fway 
At proud Cymochles. Spenjer’s F. Q. 
Sharp; dimulatjng the palate. The dudious man, whofe. 
will was never determined to poignant fauces and delicious 
wine, is, by hunger and third, determined to eating and 
drinking. Locke. 
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