. Narrative of the voyage of Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley during the years 1846-50 : to which is added Mr. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula . Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848; Stanley, Owen; Rattlesnake (Ship); Natural history. 298 NATIVE forehead^ then combed out at leng-th^ and tied mid- way with a string-, leaving- one part straight, and the remainder frizzled out into a mop projecting horizontally backwards. Some also had a long pigtail hanging down behind, in one case decorated with a bimch of
. Narrative of the voyage of Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley during the years 1846-50 : to which is added Mr. Kennedy's expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula . Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848; Stanley, Owen; Rattlesnake (Ship); Natural history. 298 NATIVE forehead^ then combed out at leng-th^ and tied mid- way with a string-, leaving- one part straight, and the remainder frizzled out into a mop projecting horizontally backwards. Some also had a long pigtail hanging down behind, in one case decorated with a bimch of dog's teeth at the end. Across the forehead they wore fillets of small shells strung together over a broad white band of some leafy sub- stance. The septum of the nose was perforated, and some wore a long straight nose-stick of bone with black bands. AH our ^dsitors had their teeth darkened with the practice of betel chewing,—we saw them use the leaf of the betel pepper, the green areca nut, and lime, the last carried in a small calabash with a spatula. We had been becalmed aU the morning, but before noon the sea-breeze set in from the S. S. E., and we Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original MacGillivray, John, 1822-1867; Busk, George, 1807-1886; Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon), 1812-1888; Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854; White, Adam, 1817-1879. London : T. & W. Boone
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