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far the greater part of the family eftate, as the mother, keeping up 
her prerogative, never parts with the power over any portion of 
what the has brought into the family, until fhe is forced into it by 
the marriage of her daughter, and the father alfo is compelled to 
ruin himfeif by adding whatever he may have fcraped together by 
his indufiry.—The fecond danghter inherits nothing, and is con- 
demned to perpetual celibacy—She is ftyled a Calogria, which 
fignifies properly a religious woman or nun, and is in effect menial 
fervant to her fifter, being employed by her in any office fhe may 
think fit to impofe, frequently ferving her as waiting maid, as 
cook, and often in employments {till more degrading.—She wears 
a habit peculiar to her fituation which fhe can never change, a fort 
of monaitick drefs, coarfe, and of dark brown. One advantage 
however fhe enjoys over her fifler, that whereas the elder, before 
marriage, is never allowed to go abroad, or to fee any man, her 
neareft relations only excepted, the Calogria, except when em- 
ployed in domeftick toil, is in this refpe@t at perfe@ liberty — 
But when the fifter is married the fituation of the poor Calogria 
becomes defperate indeed, and is rendered ftill more humiliating 
by the comparifon between her condition and that of her happy 
miftrefs. The married fifter enjoys every fort of liberty—the 
whole family fortune is her’s, and fhe fpends it as fhe pleafes— 
her hufband is her obfequious fervant—her father and mother are 
dependent upon her—fhe dreffes in the moft magnificent manner, 
covered all over, according to the fafhion of the ifland, with pearls 
and with pieces of gold, which are commonly fequins*; thus con- 
tinually 
* This fpecies of finery, which prevails through many of the iflands, is never 
worn in Metelin but when full drefs is deemed neceflary. 
