The anxiety of the Whigs to repeal the timber duties is quite pardonable,
for, with their _wooden heads_, they doubtlessly look upon it in the light
of a _poll-tax_.
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[Illustration: Head of a Botecudo previous to disfigurement.]
[Illustration: Head of a Butecudo disfigured by chin and ear pendants.]
[Illustration: Head of a Botecudo disfigured by civilisation.]