co?ers O? ALTerSALTA. 143 from wh/ch he had himsel� before shrunk; but as I held the glass within the focus 'distance, no ? sensation was produced; after which he presented me his own arm, and allowed me to burn it as long as I chose to hold the glass, without. ?ilmching in the le?t, which, with greater The. y were all furuished, as ha? been befor, mentioned, with a cloak of kangaroo-skin, which is alwaye taken off and spread under them when ways; ..sOmetimes. it was clotted with red pi?. merit and seal oil, clubbed up behind, and bound rmud with a fillet of opossum4ur, spun into a long string, in which parrot-feathers, escalop shells, and other ornamen. ts being fixed in dif- ferant fanciful ways., gave the wearer a warlike a? Their faces, and sometimes their whole bodies, were daubed over with a mixture of seal oil and red pigment, that caused a most disgusting ef- fluvia; but the only colouring matter that our friend Jack used, after his acqua/n .rance with us, was the carpenter's chalk, which he thought par. ticularly ornamental. Bracelets of dog-tails or kangaroo-skin .were commonly worn, and one had several escalop shells ? abo?t .blm_, the Iloise of wMch, ss
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