These weapons are made of polished coconut-wood, eight to ten feet long, sharp at each end, and beautifully balanced, the thickest part being two-fifths of the distance from the point; one end was usually ornamented with a narrow strip of palm leaf, fluttering in the breeze like a pennon as usually carried.

One man was furnished with a two-edged carved and painted instrument like a sword.
Most of these people had their face daubed over with broad streaks of charcoal down the centre and round the eyes.

Occasionally variegated with white, giving them a most forbidding aspect.

At length a live pig was brought down from the village, slung on a pole, and was purchased for a knife and a handkerchief.

This was a masterstroke of policy, as the natives well knew that it would take two of us to bear off our prize to the boat, thus rendering our little party less formidable.
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