Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wore a string several times round the head, while others had only a mere crown of hair. Polygamy is common among all the natives of this island. On the east coast were observed some in whom one of the middle teeth of the upper jaw was wanting and others in whom two where deficient: but this custom, the object of which the French navigators could not learn, was by no means general. Almost all these were tattowed in raised points, sometimes placed in two lines one over the other much in the shape of a horse-shoe ; though frequently these points were in three straight and pavallel lines on each side of the breast: some were ob- 2B2