An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.; . fomething every year to the orna-ments of the laft, fo that fome of them, who appeared to beof an advanced age, were almoft covered from head to the Amoco, they have marks impreffed by a methodunknown
An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq.; . fomething every year to the orna-ments of the laft, fo that fome of them, who appeared to beof an advanced age, were almoft covered from head to the Amoco, they have marks impreffed by a methodunknown to us, of a very extraordinary kind: they are fur-rows of about a line deep, and a line broad, fuch as appearupon the bark of a tree which has been cut through, after ayears growth: the edges of thefe furrows are afterwards in-dented by the fame method, and being perfectly black,they make a moft frightful appearance. The faces of theold men are almoft covered with thefe marks; thofe whoare very young, black only their lips like the women; whenthey are fomewhat older, they have generally a black patchupon one cheek, and over one eye, and fo proceed gra-dually, that they may grow old and honourable together:but though we could not but be difgufted with the horriddeformity which thefe ftains and furrows produced in the human face divine, we could not but admire the dexte-8 rity. X°i3. ROUND THE WORLD. 4J3 rity and art with which they were imprefled. The marks upon *77°f the face in general are fpirals, which are drawn with great «—->, > nicety, and even elegance, thofe on one fide exactly corre-fponding with thofe on the other: the marks on the bodyfomewhat refemble the foliage in old chafed ornaments, andthe convolutions of fillagree work; but in thefe they havefuch a luxuriance of fancy, that of an hundred, which atfirft fight appeared to be exactly the fame, no two were,upon a clofe examination, found to be alike. We obferved,that the quantity and form of thefe marks
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