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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. little narrow pieces, like fmall teeth, almoft down to the 
_hafe or thickeft part, which has a fmall projecting bit at 
each end that fupports it when put into the divided lip; the 
cut part then appearing outward. Others have the lower 
lip only perforated into feparate holes; and then the orna¬ 
ment confifts of as many diftinCt fhelly Ituds, whofe points 
are pufhed through thefe holes, and their heads appear 
within the lip, as another row of teeth immediately under 
their own. 
Thefe are their native ornaments. But we found many 
beads of European manufacture among them, chiefly of a 
pale blue colour, which they hang in their ears; about their 
caps; or join to their lip-ornaments, which have a fmall 
hole drilled in each point to which they are fattened, and 
others to them, till they hang fometimes as low as the point 
of the chin. But, in this laft cafe, they cannot remove 
them fo eafily; for, as to their own lip-ornaments, they can 
take them out with their tongue, or fuck them in, at plea- 
fure. They alfo wear bracelets of the fhelly beads, or 
others of a cylindrical jfhape, made of a fubftance like 
amber; with fuch alfo as are ufed in their ears and nofes. 
And fo fond are they, in general, of ornament, that they 
Hick any thing in their perforated lip; one man appear¬ 
ing with two of our iron nails projecting from it like 
prongs; and another endeavouring to put a large brafs but¬ 
ton into it. 
The men frequently paint their faces of a bright red, and 
of a black colour, and fometimes of a blue, or leaden co¬ 
lour; but not in any regular figure; and the women, in 
fome meafure, endeavoured to imitate them, by punCturing 
or ftaining the chin with black, that comes to a point in 
each cheek; a practice very fimilar to which is in fafhion 
amongft 
