. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. IN TIMOR-LAUT. S13 Buginese and Macassar traders also carry on a considerable traffic in slaves, bringing them from Halmaheira and the coasts of Borneo and Celebes. In this way also may be accounted for some of the race-mingling. The clothing of the men consists of a narrow T-shaped loin- cloth, with the ends which hang down in front decorated with red, black and white patchwork, and adorned with sections of cowrie- shells and with beads. The women wear a short saro
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. IN TIMOR-LAUT. S13 Buginese and Macassar traders also carry on a considerable traffic in slaves, bringing them from Halmaheira and the coasts of Borneo and Celebes. In this way also may be accounted for some of the race-mingling. The clothing of the men consists of a narrow T-shaped loin- cloth, with the ends which hang down in front decorated with red, black and white patchwork, and adorned with sections of cowrie- shells and with beads. The women wear a short sarong (Malay petticoat), artistically woven by themselves out of the fibres of the Aloan-palm (Borassus jlabelliformifi), suspended by a broad belt made from the stem of its leaf and fastened by an elaborately carved buckle of wood which frequently in married women has been the gift of her husband at the timewhen herpurchase-money was agreed on, possibly a sort of engagement token. Armlets cut from conus shells, of brass, of ivory, or of wood, carved like those worn by the Hill Dyaks of Borneo, are worn by both sexes; while the women have in addition toe-rings and anklets of brass. Round the helix and in the lobe of their ears the women wear a graduated series of silver or of gold lor- lora or rings, which in the case of the men is often so heavy as to break away the cartilage. The patterns of these ear orna- ments are exceedingly chaste, especially those carved out of bone, of ivory and ebony combined, or of the tooth of the rare and highly-prized dugong (Halicore). Both sexes tatoo a few simple devices, circles, stars and pointed crosses, on the breast, on the brow, on the cheek, and on the wrists; and scar, with the utmost equani- mity, their arms and shoulders with red hot stones in imitation of small-pox marks, as a charm that will ward off, they think, that disease. I did not, however, see any one variola-marked, nor could I learn of an epidemic of the disease having appeare
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