A JOURNEY TO THE 
and their hair, like all the other tribes in India, 
is black, ftrong, and ftraight*. Few of the men 
have any beard; this feldom makes its appear- 
ance till they are arrived at middle-age, and then _ 
is by no means equal in quantity to what is ob- _ 
ferved on the faces of the generality of Europe. | 
ans; the little they have, however, is exceeding- _ 
ly ftrong and briftly. Some of them take but — 
little pains to eradicate their beards, though it is | 
confidered as very unbecoming; and thofe who 
do, haye no other method than that of pulling it 
out by the roots between their fingers and the 
edge of a blunt knife, Neither fex have any 
hair under their armpits, and very little on any | 
other part of the body, particularly the women 5 _ 
but on the place where Nature plants the hair, I 
never knew them attempt to eradicate it. ) 
Their features are peculiar, and different from | 
any other tribe in thofe parts; for they have very | 
low foreheads, fmall eyes, high cheek-bones, Ro- | 
man nofes, full cheeks, and in general long broad. | 
chins. ‘Though few of either fex are exempt | 
from this national fet of features, yet Nature 
feems to be more flrict in her obfervance of it — 
among the females, as they feldom vary fo much | 
asthe men. Their fkins are foft, fmooth, and | 
polifhed ; and when they are drefied in clean | 
_ clothing, 
* | have feen feverai of the Southern Indian men who were near fix feet 
bigh, preferve a fingle lock of their hair, that, when let down, would trail 
"on the ground as they walked. This, howeveryis but feldom feen; and 
fome have fufpeéted it to be falfe: but I have examined the hair of 
feveral of them and found it to ke real 
