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Cfnnefe ; we muft except their bodies, which are fmall. In their 

 head-drefs they agree in the pointed bonnet, in the frequent in- 

 habiting of fliips and boats, and now and then in their orna- 

 mented architedlure. Tlie faces of the inhabitants are large, Form of the 

 their cheek bones prominent, their foreheads and chins contrail 

 equally to a point ; their cheeks hollow, their eyes fmall and ob- 

 lique, nofe iliort and rounded ; their ears long, by artificial dif- 

 tenfion ; their complexions fwarthy ; their hair black and coarfe, 

 and would be extremely long, but that it is cut fo very clofe 

 that their heads feem befet with brillles ; their teeth black 

 from art. 



It is to be lamented, that fo well informed a traveller as Koemp- 

 fer fliould not have left us any thing on the fubjeft of the natural 

 hiiliory of fo fertile a kingdom ; we have nothing to fay of its 

 vegetable produ61:ions, and as to its animals, we can only inform 

 our readers that it fwarms with elephants, and that their teeth Elephants. 

 are a confiderable article of commerce. In this tyrannous go- 

 vernment they are quite a peft ; thefe, and other herbivorous 

 beafts, deftroy the labors of the hufbandmen, and none dare re- 

 pel the attacks of thofe ravagers. Elephants are here only re- 

 ferved for ftate ; the king keeps great numbers, and often makes 

 them the inilrument of his cruelty. They are the executioners 

 of his wrath on his offending fubjedls, and are inflruded how to 

 put them to various kinds of death, either by trampling them 

 under their broad feet, or deliberately tearing their limbs off 

 with their lithe probofcis, or flinging them up into the air, and 

 catching them empaled on their great tulks. 



Buffaloes and deer are found here in vaft numbers ; their Deer. 



fkins 



