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img and plaited drapery behind, andthe 
long scarfs which they wear over their 
heads, give them a very: grotesque, and; 
at the same time, gloomy and fanatical 
appearance; while the neglect of ablu- 
tion is. but too visible on their hands 
and faces... The greasy aliments and 
oils, and quantities of garlick, used in 
their cookery, make their breath as little 
attractive as their appearance : so that, 
excepting their dark expressive eyes, 
and the melting plaintiveness of their 
voices, the Spanish women of America 
have very little one can admire. Their 
musical acquirements are mostly con- 
fined to the guitar. 
There are some exceptions, however, 
to those general remarks, and in many 
parts of South America are to be seen 
very pretty women; especially in high 
latitudes, or cold regions. There are 
several towns on the Cordilleras, from 
Coro to Cumana, where beauty holds 
her empire. But a very fatal disease 
visits those high latitudes, called there 
the godos, or goitres, which disfigures 
many of them. Latitude, or climate, 
however, does not alone decide. The 
women of Caraccas are reputed hand- 
some, while those of La Guayra are 
coarse, dark, and ordinary, although the 
distance is not more than two days’ 
journey. In Merida the women are 
handsome; although those of Maracaibo 
are very ordinary, which: is not more 
than four or five days’ journey distant. 
In Valentia, again, they are ordinary; 
although, in. its immediate vicinity, they 
are quite different. One moral feature, 
however, in general characterizes them, 
that is, generosity. As they are removed 
from the negro caste, they are more 
affable; as the characteristic ferocity of 
the negro is visible in every caste that 
approaches his dingy hue. The intro- 
duction of this unhappy class into South 
America, and perhaps into every region 
into which they have been transported, 
has entailed a seemingly uneradicable 
brand on the offspring of those, whose 
tyrannous injustice has sought to build 
the superstructure of rapacious opulence 
upon their enthralled and agonising 
labour. 
It is equally perceptible in those tribes 
of Indians who have allowed the negro 
to intermarry with them. For instance, 
the Laneros are the fiercest, most in- 
tractable, and treacherous race on Terra 
Firma, and the negro .women have 
scarcely an amiable trait in their cha- 
racter; while, on the contrary, the 
Indians of Bocca Montana, Carache, 
Danish Traditions and Superstitions, 
(Jansd, 
and) many other swandéring tribesjrare 
mild, docile, and) tractable; and/otheir 
women generous and obliging. Perhaps 
the best idea of the: peoplesmay; be Had 
from naming the principal towns with 
the leading features» of their women; 
For instance, in Bogota, the women are 
ordinary, clumsy, and ‘inclined <to what: 
we frenchify into the affected term; ez’ 
bonne point; and are not) over-nice «in 
their amours. In Carthagena, they are 
somewhat _better-looking, » though) not 
much more virtuous. In Santa Martha; 
very ordinary; in Baranguilla and Sava- 
nilla, the same; in Turbace, a little :bet- 
ter; in Portobello, ugly, ill-natured; and 
savage; in Porto Cavello, obliging, but 
ordinary; Cumana, the same,and mostly 
women of colour; in Rio de la Lacha, 
disgusting, but free from goitres ;in 
Alvalea, tolerably handsome and obli- 
ging; in Angostura, and along the Ori- 
noco, very ordinary, inclined to! black in 
general, with most of the peculiarities of 
that hue. | In fact, along the sea-coast, 
the women are not comparable to the 
women of the interior in person or dis- 
position; as the heat of low situations 
seems to have its influence over the dis+ 
position as well as the person, 
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For the Monthly Magazine: 
Danisu Trapitionsand SUPERSTITIONS, 
(Continued from No. 399, p. 22. oe 
The Daneman’s Hope. 
N the year 1219, when King Walde- 
mar fought with the heathen Lif- 
landers, in order to force them tothe 
Christian . faith, Archbishop Andreas, 
stood like Moses of old. upon a, high 
mountain, and prayed to Heaven, with 
extended arms, for the success. of ‘the 
Danish weapons. It is reported, that 
as long as he was able to hold his. arms 
in the air, the Danes conquered, but, 
whenever he let his arms, sink, fromold 
age and weakness, the heathens had the 
advantage. The priests, therefore, who 
were around him, supported,-his arms 
until the battle was over... Another 
wonderful circumstance) occurred, for 
the Danish standard being Jost in.the 
heat of the action, there fell from: Hea- 
ven a crimson-banner, .on, which | was 
painted. a white cross, a. sight,.which 
very much. contributed to the success of 
the Christians, ..They,,preserved ,the 
banner for a long time, and. called, it 
“ The Daneman’s, Hope,”,.for it: was 
their furm__belief,, that... wherever. they 
fought under. it the, victory would:be 
theirs: On the spot where the above- 
mentioned 
