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of a cup, about two inches long, and half an inch broad, 
made of wood, hone, or ivory, finely polidied, which is 
hung about the neck, by fine threads of twifted hair, 
doubled fometimes an hundred fold. Indead of this or¬ 
nament, fame of them wear, on their bread:, a fmall hu¬ 
man figure, made of bone, fufpended in the fame man¬ 
ner. 
The fan, or fly-flap, is alfo an ornament ufed by both 
fexes. The mod ordinary kind are made of the fibres of the 
cocoa-nut, tied loofe, in bunches, to the top of a fmooth 
polifhed handle. The tail-feathers of the cock, and of the 
tropic-bird, are alfo ufed in the fame manner; but the mod 
valuable are thofe which have the handle made of the arm 
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or leg bones of an enemy flain in battle, and which are pre¬ 
fer ved with great care, and handed down, from father to 
fon, as trophies of inedimable value. 
The cudom of tattowing the body, they have in common 
with the red of the natives of the South Sea Idands; but it 
is only at New Zealand, and the Sandwich Idands, that they 
tattow the face. There is alfo this difference between the 
two lad, that, in the former, it is done in elegant fpiral vo¬ 
lutes, and in the latter, in draight lines, eroding each other 
at right angles. The hands and arms of the women are 
alfo very neatly marked, and they have a fingular cultom 
amongd them, the meaning of which we could never 
learn, that of tat towing the tip of the tongues of the fe¬ 
males. 
From fome information we received, relative to the cuf- 
tom of tattowingy we were inclined to think, that it is fre¬ 
quently intended as a dgn of mourning on the death of a 
Chief, or any other calamitous event. For we were often 
told, that fuch a particular mark was in memory of fuch a 
Chief; 
* 779- 
March. 
