A Memoir of the Late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N.: With Extracts From His ...
A Memoir of the Late Captain Peter Heywood, R.N.: With Extracts From His ...
Edward Tagart
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I was tattooed, not at my own desire, but theirs ; for it was my constant en- deavour to acquiesce in any little custom which I thought would be agreeable to them, though painful in the process, provided I gained by it their friend- ship and esteem, which you may suppose no incon- siderable object in an island where the natives are so numerous. The more a man or woman there is tattooed, the more respect is paid them ; and a person who has none of these marks is looked upon ais bearing a most in...dignant badge of disgrace, and considered as a mere outcast of society. You may suppose, then, that my disposition would not suffer me to be long out of fashion. I always made it a maxim when I was in Rome to act as Rome did, provided it did not interfere with my morals or religion. By this means I was the greatest favourite of any Englishman on shore, and treated with re- spect by every person in the island, in whose mouths my name ever was an object of love and esteem. Perhaps you may think I flatter* myself, * That he did not flatter himself^ Captain Bligh's second voyage to G 2 Digitized by Google 84 but I really do not.
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