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to their foreheads, & upon their foreheads they leave 

 a locke of hayre reaching downe unto their eye browes : 

 upon the two hindermost corners of their heads, they 

 have two lockes also, which they twine and braid into 

 knots and so bind and knit them under each eare one. 

 Moreover their womens garments differ not from their 

 mens, saving that they are somwhat longer. But on 

 the morrowe after one of their women is maried, shee 

 shaves her scalpe from the middest of her head down 

 to her forehead, & weares a wide garment like unto 

 the hood of a Nunne, yea larger and longer in all 

 parts then a Nuns hood, being open before and girt 

 unto them under the right side. For herein doe the 

 Tartars differ from the Turkes : because the Turkes 

 fasten their garments to their bodies on the left side : 

 but the Tartars alwaies on the right side. They have 

 also an ornament for their heads which they call Botta, 

 being made of the barke of a tree, or of some such 

 other lighter matter as they can find, which by reason 

 of the thicknes & roundnes therof cannot be holden 

 but in both hands together : & it hath a square sharp 

 spire rising from the top therof, being more then a 

 cubite in length, & fashioned like unto a pinacle. The 

 said Botta they cover al over with a piece of rich silke : 

 & it is hollow within : & upon the midst of the sayd 

 spire or square toppe, they put a bunch of quils or of 

 slender canes a cubite long and more : & the sayd 

 bunch, on the top thereof, they beautifie with Peacocks 

 feathers, & round about al ye length therof, with the 

 feathers of a Malards taile, & with precious stones 

 also. Great ladies weare this kind of ornament upon 

 their heads binding it strongly with a certain hat or 

 coyfe, which hath an hole in the crowne, fit for the 

 [I. 99.] spire to come through it : & under the foresaid ornament 

 they cover the haires of their heads, which they gather 

 up round together from the hinder part therof to the 

 crowne, & so lap them up in a knot or bundel within 

 the said Botta, which afterward they bind strongly under 



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