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Following the Equator
Part 4

CHAPTER XXX
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The tattooing in these portraits ought to suggest the savage, of course, but it does not.

The designs are so flowing and graceful and beautiful that they are a most satisfactory decoration.

It takes but fifteen minutes to get reconciled to the tattooing, and but fifteen more to perceive that it is just the thing.

After that, the undecorated European face is unpleasant and ignoble.
Dr.Hockiu gave us a ghastly curiosity--a lignified caterpillar with a plant growing out of the back of its neck--a plant with a slender stem 4 inches high.

It happened not by accident, but by design--Nature's design.


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