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rity and art with which they were impreffed. The marks upon
the face in general areffpirals, which are drawn with great i— .—
nicety, and'even elegance, thofe on one fide exactly corrc-
fpondirig'with thofe on the other: the marks on the .body
fomewhat referable the foliage in. old chafed ornaments, and
the- convolutions of fillagreé work ; but in thefe they have
fucli a luxuriance of fancy, that o f an hundred, which at
firll light appeared to be cxaclly the fame, no two were,
upon a clofe examination, found to be alike. We obferved,
that the quantify ;and form of thefe marks were différent in
différent parts o;f'- the eoaft, and that as the principal: feat of
them' at Otaheite was the breech,; in; New Zealand it was
fbmetimes the only part which vvas free, and in general was
lets diftinguiftied than any other.
The fkms of thefe people, however, are not only dyed, but
painted, for, as I have before obferved, they linear their bodies
with red oker, fome rubbing it on dry, and foine applying
it in large.patches mixed with oil, which is always wet,
and which the lead touch will rub off, fo that the tranfgref-
iions of fuch of our people as were guilty of ravifhing a kifs
from thefe blooming beauties, were moft legibly written
upon their faces. .
: The drefs, of a New Zealander is certainly, to a ftranger
atfirft fight, the moft, uncouth that can be imagined. It is
made of the leaves of the flag, which has been deferibed
among the vegetable productions- of this country : thefe
leaves are fplit into three or four flips, and the flips, when
they are dry, interwoven with each other into a kind of fluff
between netting and cloth, with all the ends, which are
eight or nine inches long, hanging out on the upper fide,
like the fhag or thrumb matts, which we fometimes fee
lying in a pafiage. Of this cloth, if cloth it may be called,
I V ol. III. G S two