permitted to grow of an amazing length, was twisted up in two
prominent knots, that gave him the appearance of being decorated
with a pair of horns. His beard, plucked out by the root from
every other part of his face, was suffered to droop in hairy
pendants, two of which garnished his under lip, and an equal
number hung from the extremity of his chin.

Kory-Kory, with a view of improving the handiwork of nature, and
perhaps prompted by a desire to add to the engaging expression of
his countenance, had seen fit to embellish his face with three
broad longitudinal stripes of tattooing, which, like those
country roads that go straight forward in defiance of all
obstacles, crossed his nasal organ, descended into the hollow of
his eyes, and even skirted the borders of his mouth. Each
completely spanned his physiognomy; one extending in a line with
his eyes, another crossing the face in the vicinity of the nose,
and the third sweeping along his lips from ear to ear. His
countenance thus triply hooped, as it were, with tattooing,
always reminded me of those unhappy wretches whom I have
sometimes observed gazing out sentimentally from behind the
grated bars of a prison window; whilst the entire body of my
savage valet, covered all over with representations of birds and
fishes, and a variety of most unaccountable-looking creatures,
suggested to me the idea of a pictorial museum of natural
history, or an illustrated copy of 'Goldsmith's Animated Nature.'

But it seems really heartless in me to write thus of the poor
islander, when I owe perhaps to his unremitting attentions the
very existence I now enjoy. Kory-Kory, I mean thee no harm in
what I say in regard to thy outward adornings; but they were a