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S U M A T R A . 47<br />

filing does not, by deflroying what we term the enamel, diminifh the<br />

whitenefs of the teeth. The great men fometimes fet theirs in gold, by<br />

cafing, with a plate of that metal, the under row; and this ornament, contracted<br />

with the black dye, has, by. lamp or candle light, a very fplendid.<br />

effedt. It is fometimes indented to the fliape of the teeth, but more<br />

ufually quite plain. They do not remove it either to eat or fleep.<br />

At the age of about eight or nine, they bore the ears of the female<br />

children; which is a ceremony that muft neceflarily precede their marriage.<br />

This they call betenday, as they call filing their teeth bcdabongi<br />

both which operations are regarded in the family, as the occafions of a<br />

feftival. They do not here, as in fome of the adjacent iflands, (of<br />

Neas in particular), encourage the aperture of the ear to a monftrous fize,<br />

fo as in many inftances to be large enough to admit the hand through,<br />

the lower parts being ftretched till they touch the fhoulders. Their<br />

earings are moftly of gold fillagree, faftening, not with a clafp, but in<br />

the manner of ftuds.<br />

Pillages.

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