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carpenters, in coarfer and finer pieces; and fome black '778- - 



^ April. 



bits which are little inferior to the hone-ftonc. The natives ^ — ^n-— * 

 alfo ufe the tranfparent leafy glimjher, or Mufcovy glafs ; 

 a brown leafy or martial fort ; and they, fometimes, 

 brought to us pieces of rock-cryftal, tolerably tranfparent. 

 The two firft are, probably, found near the fpot as they 

 feemed to be in confiderablc quantities; but the latter feems- 

 to be brought from a greater diftance, or is very Icarce; for 

 our vifiters always parted with it reludlantly. Some of the 

 pieces were octangular, and had the appearance of being- 

 formed into that fliape by art. 



The perfons of the natives are, in general, under the 

 common flature ; but not flender in proportion, being com- 

 monly pretty full or plump, though not mufcular. Neither 

 doth the foft flefliinefs feem ever to fwell into corpulence; 

 and many of the older people are rather fpare, or lean. The 

 vifage of moft of them is round and full ; and fometimes, 

 alfo, broad, with high prominent cheeks ;. and, above thefe, 

 the face is frequently much deprefled^ or. fcems fallen in 

 quite acrofs between the temples ; the nofe alfo flattening at 

 its bafe, with pretty wide noftrils, and a rounded point. 

 The forehead rather low; the eyes fmall, black, and rather 

 languifliing than fparkling ; the mouth round, with large 

 round thickifli lips ; the teeth tolerably equal. and well fct, 

 but not remarkably, white. They have either no beards at 

 all, which was moft commonly the cafe, or a fmall thin one 

 upon the point of the chin; which does not arife from any, 

 natural defeiSlof hair on that part, but from plucking it out 

 more or lefs ; for fome of them, and particularly the old 

 men, have not only, confiderable beards all over the 

 chin, but whifkers, or muftachios ; both on the upper 

 lip, and running from, thence toward the lower jaw ob- 



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