114 cook's VOYAGE TO AUG. 



filtering-stones, brought in great numbers from Grand 

 Canary, the wine is the only considerable article of 

 the foreign commerce of Teneriffe. 



" None of the race of inhabitants found here when 

 the Spaniards discovered the Canaries now remain 

 a distinct people*, having intermarried with the 

 Spanish settlers; but their descendants are known, 

 from their being remarkably tall, large-boned, and 

 strong. The men are, in general, of a tawny colour, 

 and the women have a pale complexion, entirely des- 

 titute of that bloom which distinguishes our northern 

 beauties. The Spanish custom of wearing black 

 clothes continues amongst them; but the men seem 

 more indifferent about this, and, in some measure, 

 dress like the French. In other respects, we found 

 the inhabitants of Teneriffe to be a decent and very 

 civil people, retaining that grave cast which distin- 

 guishes those of their country from other European 

 nations. Although we do not think that there is a 

 great similarity between our manners and those of 

 the Spaniards, it is worth observing, that Omai did 

 not think there was much difference. He only said, 

 that they seemed not so friendly as the English; and 

 that, in their persons, they approached those of his 

 countrymen." 



* It was otherwise in Glas's time, when a few families of the 

 Guanches (as they are called) remained still in Teneriffe, not 

 blended with the Spaniards. Glas, p. 240. 



