A f)efcription of Darien^ 6^ 



a prickly Fifh, which when ftripM, Is very 

 good Meat. They have likewife String-rays^ 

 Parrot' fi/h, Snooks^ Conger Eds, Conchs, Per^ 

 r twinkles, Limp/ts, Sea Crabs ^ and Craw-fifhf 

 and other forts whofe names we know not, thac 

 eat very well 



The Inhabitants are mofl: numerous on the 

 North of the Ifihmtts ; the Men ufually 5 or<$ 

 foot high, ftreight, clean limb'd, big-bon'd, 

 handfomely fhapM, nimble, aSive, and rua 

 well. The Women are (hort and thick, and 

 not ib lively as the Men ; the young Womea 

 plump, well-(hap'd, and have a brisk Eye: both 

 Sexes have a round Vifage, fhort bottle Nofes, 

 large and grey Eyes, high Forehead, white 

 even Teeth, thin Lips, pretty large Mouths, 

 well proportion'd Cheeks and Chins, and iti 

 general handfome; but the Men exceed the Wch 

 men. Both Sexes have ftreight long lank blacfc 

 Hair, which they generally wear down to th© 

 middle of their Back. All other Hair but that 

 of their Eye-brows and Eye-lids they pull up by 

 the Roots, cut oft' the hair of their Heads, an-d 

 paint themfelves black by way of triumph, 

 when they kill a Spaniard, Their natural com-» 

 plexion is a copper Colour, and their Eye-» 

 brows black as jet. There are (bme among 

 them of both Sexes, which bear the proporti- 

 on of two or three to a hundred, who are milk 

 white, and have all their Bodies covered over 

 with a milk white Down ; their Hair is of the 

 fame Colour, . and very fine, about 6 or 8 Inches 



long, 



