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as they rub their bodies conftantly over with a red paint, of '778. 

 a clayey or coarl'e ochry fubftancc, mixed with oil, their 

 garments, by this means, contradl a rancid ofFenfive fraell, 

 and a greafy naftinefs. So that they make a very wretched 

 dirty appearance ; and what is ftill worfe, their heads and 

 their garments fwarm with vermin, which, fo depraved is 

 their tafte for cleanlinefs, we ufed to fee them pick olT with 

 great compofure, and eat. 



Though their bodies are always covered with red paint, 

 their faces are often fliained with a black, a brighter red, or 

 a white colour, by way of ornament. The laft of thefe gives 

 them a ghalUy, difgufting afpe(5l. They alfo ftrew the 

 brown martial mica upon the paint, which makes it glitter. 

 The ears of many of them are perforated in the lobe, where 

 they make a pretty large hole ; and two others higher up on 

 the outer edge. In thefe holes they hang bits of bone ; 

 quills fixed upon a leathern thong; fmall fliellsj bunches 

 of woollen taflcls ; or pieces of tiiin copper, w hich our 

 beads could never fupplant. The fcptinn of the nofc, in 

 many, is alfo perforated, through which they draw a piece 

 of foft cord ; and others wear, at the fame place, fmall thin 

 pieces of iron, brafs, or copper, fliaped almoft like a horfe- 

 flioe, the narrow opening of which receives the/cpluw, fo as 

 that the two points may gently pinch it ; and the ornament 

 thus hangs over the upper lip. The rings of our brafs but- 

 tons, which they eagerly purchafed, were appropriated to 

 this ufe. About their wrifts they wear bracelets or bunches 

 of white bugle beads, made of a conic Ihclly fubflance; 

 bunches of thongs, with taflels ; or a broad black fliining 

 horny fubflance, of one piece. And about their ankles they 

 alfo frequently wear many folds of leathern thongs, or the 

 fmews of animals twilled to a confiderable thicknefs. 

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