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Some account of Savu

Men cheifly of distinction round their necks in the form of a solitaire  others had them round their wrists &c, but the women had the largest quantity which they wore round their waists in the form of a girdle serving to keep up their waistcloths  Both sexes had their ears bord universaly but we never saw any ornaments in them  indeed we never saw any one man dressd the whole time we were there in thing more than his ordinary cloths Some boys of 12 or 14 years of age wore also circles of thick brass wire which pass'd screw fashion 3 or 4 times round their arms above the elbow & some men also wore rings of ivory  convex  2 inches in breadth & above an inch in thickness in the same manner above the joint of the elbow  these we were told were the sons of Radjas who alone had the priviledge of wearing these cumbersome badges of high birth

Almost all the men had their names tracd upon their arms in indelible characters of Black  the women had a square ornament of flourishd lines on the inner part of each arm just under the bend of the elbow  on enquiring into the antiquity of this custom  so consonant with that of Tattowing in the South Sea Islands Mr Lange told us that
 

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