intended for the profession of arms, it would be highly unbecoming their military character to complain of hardship in submitting to it.
In the likeness of Tiarrah the tattooing is completed: I have only exhibited his face, and though he in all probability suffered considerably from having it, as they conceive, so highly ornamented, yet his suffering must have been very much increased from having other parts of his body operated upon in the same manner.
The pantaloons, particularly the posterior part, are in general very highly embroidered, and of which they are not a little vain.
Those intended for the performance of their religious ceremonies have only a small square patch of tattooing over the right eye.
The women suffer but little from this barbarous custom: a small spiral figure on each side the chin, a semicircular figure over each eye-brow, and two, or sometimes three lines, on each lip, are all they are required to submit to. Their
