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A PROFESSOR OF THE FINE ARTS -- HIS PERSECUTIONS -- SOMETHING ABOUT TATTOOING AND TABOOING -- TWO ANECDOTES IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE LATTER -- A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE TYPEE DIALECT
In one of my strolls with Kory-Kory, in passing along the border of a thick growth of bushes, my attention was arrested by a singular noise. On entering the thicket I witnessed for the first time the operation of tattooing as performed by these islanders.