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ome mouth, even and white teeth, muscular and 

 well shaped legs, and small flat feet. Like the 

 Tartars, they have scarce any beard, and the 

 smallest hair is never to be discerned on their 

 faces, from the care they take to pluck out the 

 little that appears ; they esteem it very impolite 

 to have a beard, calling the Europeans, by way 

 of reproach, the long beards. The same atten- 

 tion is paid to removing it from their bodies, 

 where its growth is more abundant ; that of 

 their heads is thick and black, but rather coarse ; 

 they permit it to grow to a great length, and 

 wind it in tresses around their heads; of this 

 they are as proud and careful as they are averse 

 to beards, nor could a greater affront be offered 

 them than to cut it off. Their women are deli- 

 cately formed, and many of them, especially 

 among the Boroanes, are very handsome. 



Possessed of great strength of constitution, 

 and unincumbered with the cares that disturb 

 civilized society, they are not subject, except at 

 a very advanced period of life, to the infirmities 

 attendant upon old age. They rarely begin to 

 be grey before they are sixty or seventy, and are 

 not bald or wrinkled until eighty. They are 

 generally longer lived than the Spaniards, and 

 many are to be met with whose age exceeds a 

 hundred ; and, to the latest period of their lives, 

 they retain their sight, teeth, and memory, unim- 

 paired. 



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