. The earth and its inhabitants .. . their almost black, or at least deep brown comjolexion, highly prominent cheek- bones, and crisp or frizzly hair, naturally of a black colour, but in many districts still dyed yellow or white with lime. The lobe of the ear is also pierced for the insertion of wood, bone and other ornaments, and the heads of the children of * This now familiar Polynesian term denotes no particular race, but is commonly applied by the Trench in a coUective sense to all the inhabitants of New Caledonia and the neighbouring archipelagoes.

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