way by herself, I will here put down some

ms were quite familiar; and I much lamented that, from the

at, in some things, the people of Hivarhoo, though of the same group of isl

y had a good deal to say concerning the manner

was esteemed most honourable. No wonder, then, that like genteel tailors, they rated their services very high; so much so that none but those belonging to t

privacy upon all men, high and low, while under the hands of a tattooer. For the time, the slightest intercourse with others is prohibited, and the small portion of food allowed is pushed under the curtain by an unseen hand. The restriction with regard to fo

can be operated upon at once; and as the whole body is to be more or less embellished by a process so slow, the studios alluded to a

eminent tattooer, the friends of the youth take him to his house to have the outlines of the general plan

terly regardless of appearances, upon whom they first try their patterns and practise generally. Their backs remorselessl

martyred in the cau

als, which gather great crowds. When these are concluded, and the places where they are held vacated even by the tattooers, scores of little tents of coarse tappa are left standing, each with a solitary inmate, who, forbidden to talk to his unseen neighbours, is ob

Thummim engraven upon his chest, were the seal of his initiation. All over Hivarhoo are established these orders of tattooers. The way in which the renegado's came to be founded is this. A year or two after his landing there happened to be a season of scarcity, owing to the partial failure of the breadfruit h

f Hannamanoo, and friend of Hardee-Hardee, the white, kept open heart and table for all tattooers whatsoever; but to entitle

ous time; and the buildings of the palace being "taboo" to all but the tattooers a

iastic sitter celebrated the event in verse. Several lines were repeated to us

is that

anna

efore th

of a hundr

tapping

hark

is that

ut the ki

small

merry lau

d daughters of