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(which is very much occasioned by their being so much ex- 

 posed to the Weather, and their continual daubing and paint- 

 ing themselves with Bears Oil, and other IngTedients mixed 

 with it) yet their Features are very good, their Eyes Black 

 and Amorous, and their Smiles afford the finest composure 

 a Face can possess. 



Their Hands are of the finest make, with small long taper 

 Fingers, and as soft as their Cheeks, the whole Body being 

 of a smooth Nature, with Limbs of the most exquisite shape. 

 They are Mercenary, except the Married Women, who some- 

 times bestow their Favours on whom they like best, in their 

 Husbands absence, for which they never take any Reward : 

 As for the report that some might have heard of them, that 

 they are never found inconstant like the Euroj^ean Women^ 

 it is intirely false ; for were the old World and the 'New, put 

 into a pair of Scales (in point of Constancy and Chastity) it 

 would be a hard matter to descern which was the heavier. 

 As for the Trading Girls, which are those designed to get 

 Money by Prostitution, these are easily known, by a particu- 

 lar Tonsure, or cut of their Hair, differing from all others 

 of that i^ation, who are not of their Profession; which 

 Method is to prevent Mistakes, for these Savages are desir- 

 ous (if possible) to keep their Wives to themselves, as well 

 as those in other Parts of the World. 



When any Addresses are made to one of these Girls, she 

 immediately acquaints her Parents therewith, and they tell 

 the King of it (provided he that courts her for a Bedfellow 

 be a stranger) his Majesty being most commonly principle 

 Baud of the l^ation he rules over, there being seldom any 

 of these Love-bargains made or concluded without his Royal 

 Assent. He likewise advises her what Bargain to make with 

 her Gallant, who shews some Toys he has to present her 

 with : But if it happens to be an Indian Trader, that wants 



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