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Some Account of New Zealand

observd that the more populous a countrey was the greater quantity of this Amoco they had  possibly in populous countreys the emulation of Bearing pain with fortitude may be carried to greater lenghs than where there are fewer people & consequently fewer examples to encourage. the Buttocks which in the Islands was the principal seat of this ornament in general here escapes untouchd  in one place only we saw the contrary  possibly they might on this account be esteemd  themselves  as more noble as having transferrd the seat of their honourable ornament from the dishonourable cheeks of their tail to the more honourable ones of their heads

Besides this dying in grain as it may be calld they are very fond of painting themselves with Red Ocre which they do in two ways  either rubbing it dry upon their skins, which some few do or daubing their faces with large patches of it mixd with oil which consequently never drys  this latter is generaly practisd by the women & was most universaly condemnd by us for if any of us had unthinkingly ravishd a kiss from one of these fair Savages our transgressions were wrote in most legible Characters on our noses
 

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