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Important from the Exploring Expedition
We have understood that the body of the Fejee chief, Vendovi, is about to be embalmed by the learned faculty of the University of New York.

We hope Dr. Mott will be prevailed upon to deliver a lecture on his remains. The surgeons at the Hospital have already cut off his head, and it has been laying in pickle for several days, before the process of embalming takes place. The hair of his head is thirty inches long on each side, and in his day of glory, he had thirty hair dressers to wait on him. Vendovi beat the Broadway dandies all to smash.


Important from the Exploring Expedition, The New York Herald, June 17, 1842. (PDF)

See Ann Fabian's article One Man's Skull for an examination of this incident.

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