Show Su suffering foring to to the gerim from their earliest youth the burmese men tattoo heir their lege legs from the thighs down to tho the knees mith designs both floral and animal and puncture et the upper part of their bodies men with it it numerous nume rou round holes int they rul rub vermilion powder this operation la is euch such that opium is otten 0 ten administered to deaden tho the agonizing pain that it causes and I 1 have heard that deaths frequently ensue from lie the gangrenous the puncture but there is a proverb hith bidi says 11 ill II faut sout pour etre bel an and the tile admiration and envy excited afterward may perhaps compensate these victims of vanity for the tortures to aich the tile decoration subjected them the tattooing ia is effected by the file juice of a plant winch which stains the designs an inky black |