the p e l e w islands. 
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to the external ufe of cocoa-nut oil. Each Chief had 
in his hand a bafket of beetle - nut, and a bamboo 
finely poliihed and inlaid at each end, in which they carry 
their Chinani ; this is coral burnt to a lime, which they 
fhake out through one end of the bamboo where they 
carry it, on the leaf of the beetle-nut, before they chew 
it, to render it more ufeful, or palatable. It was obferved 
that all their teeth were black, and that the Beetle-nut and 
Chinani^ of which they had always a quid in their mouths, 
rendered the faliva red, which, together with their black 
teeth, gave their mouths a very difgufting appearance.— 
They were of a middling ftature, very ftraight, and mufcu- 
lar, their limbs well formed, and had a particular majeftic 
manner in walking; but their legs, from a little above their 
ancles to the middle of their thighs, were tatooed fo very 
thick, as to appear dyed of a far deeper colour than their 
fkin : .their hair was of a fine black, long, and rolled up be¬ 
hind in a fimple manner clofe to the back of their heads, and 
appeared both neat and becoming.—None of them, except 
the younger of the King’s two brothers, had a beard ; and it 
was afterwards obferved, in the courfe of a longer acquaint¬ 
ance with them, that they in general plucked out their 
beards by the root; a very few only, who had Prong 
thick beards, cherifhed them and let them grow.—As 
they now feemed to feel no longer any refiraint, they were 
conducted round the cove; the ground was as yet but 
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1783. 
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