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Some account of New Zealand

indented and most perfectly black  this may be done to make them look frightfull in war at least indeed it has the Effect of making them most enormously ugly  the old ones at least whose faces are intirely coverd with it  the young again often have a small patch on one cheek or over an eye & those under a certain age (may be 25 or 26  have no more than their lips black  yet ugly as this certainly looks it is impossible to avoid admiring the immence Elegance & Justness of the figures in which it is formd  which in the face is always different spirals  upon the body generaly different figures resembling something the foliages of old Chasing upon gold or silver  all these executed finishd with a masterly taste & execution for of a hundred which at first sight you would judge to be exactly the same on a close examination no two will prove alike  nor do I remember to have seen any two alike for their wild imaginations scorn to copy as appears in almost all their works -  in different parts of the coast they varied very much in the quantity & parts of the body on which this Amoco as they call it was placd  but in the spirals upon their faces they generaly agreed & I have generaly

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