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(a) Hence the whole face, face lengthens; or so that as it is often said of when a person hearing bad news, his face in parts fell. When in Tierra del Fuego I heard of a [Fuegian] of a party of natives who when endeavour to explain that a now found captain of a sealer vessel [3 inserted words illeg] was out of spirits or cross, pulled their cheeks downwards with both their hands to make their faces appear as long as possible.

 [insertion:] informs me

Mr Templeton Bunnet in answer to my queries says that the Australia aborigines when out of spirits have a chap-fallen expression.

[Expression, pp. 178-9: "Hence all the features are lengthened; and the face of a person who hears bad news is said to fall. A party of natives in Tierra del Fuego endeavoured to explain to us that their friend, the captain of a sealing vessel, was out of spirits, by pulling down their cheeks with both hands, so as to make their faces as long as possible. Mr. Bunnet informs me that the Australian aborigines when out of spirits have a chop-fallen appearance."]