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on the ground ; and the children he down, having their 

 legs bound together under them, in order to make them 

 learn to fit upon their hams. 



Although no fire is ever made in thefe caves, they 

 are generally fo warm, that both fexes fit naked. 

 Thefe people obey the calls of nature openly, and with- 

 out efleeming it indecent. They wafli themfelves firft 

 with their own urine, and afterwards with water. In 

 winter they go always bare-footed ; and when they 

 Avant to warm themfelves, efpecially before they go to 

 fleep, they fet fire to dry grafs and walk over it. Their 

 habitations being almoft dark, they ufe particularly in 

 winter a fort of large lamps, made by hollowing out a 

 fione, into which they put a rufii-wick and burn train 

 oil. A ftone fo hollowed is called Tfaaduck. The na- 

 tives '■^■' are whites with black hair ; they have flat faces, 

 and are of a good ftature. The men fliave with a fliarp 

 fi:one or knife, the circumference and top of the head, 

 and let the hair which remains hang from the crown t. 

 The women cut their hair in a ftrcight line over the fore- 

 head ; behind they let it grow to a confiderable length, 



* Von geficht find fie platt undweifs durchgacnglg mit fchwarzen 

 haarcn. 



-j- The original in this paffage is fomewhat obfcure. Die maenner 

 fcheeren mit einem Scharfen Stein oder mefler den Umkreifs des haar- 

 kopfs und die platte, und laflen die haare um die krone des kopfs run- 

 dum ueberhangen. 



and 



