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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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is of stoical mood. Only a few square inches can be operated on at a time. The fleshswells and becomes very sore, and the performance cannot be repeateduntil the swelling subsides and the patient has gathered strength andrecovered from the fever into which he is generally thrown. We aretold that the custom is far less prevalent than when the islands werefirst discovered, and it will probably die out in another generation ortwo. The marks made by tattooing are permanent, and no applicationhas ever been found that will remove them. We have seen several menwhose entire bodies were tattooed, others whose arms and faces hadalone been wrought upon, and others again who had kept their facesfree from marks but had their bodies covered. One old fellow con-sented to stand for his photograph in consideration of being rewardedwith a hatchet and some fish-hooks, Avhicli we willingly gave him. Weadded a pocket-knife, which he received with a grunt of satisfaction, but TATTOOING IN THE MAKQUESAS. 55
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A yiEW IN NOOKAHEEVA. without deigning to say Thank you, or anything hke its equivalent.He said his name was Gattanewa, and that he was grandson of a formerchief of that name. The faces of the women are not tattooed, except that now andthen they have a black line on the upper lip, which is quite suggestiveof a budding mustache. One pretty woman was pointed out to us whowas said to be the daughter of a chief; her hands and arms were tat-tooed, the tattooing on the arms extending nearly to tlie elbow. At alittle distance she seemed to have on a pair of embroidered gloves, and 56 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. this fact suggested an idea. Why could not the ladies of civihzed landshave their hands tattooed in imitation of gloves, and thus save them-selves the trouble and expense of donning a new pair so often ? Aningenious artist could do it nicely, and he might even tattoo the buttonsin their places, so that the gloves could have no possible chance of slip-ping off or getting out of

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