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which they divide upon the crown of their head. It is 

 black and bufhy, and, although fufficiently long, feems to 

 partake of the woolly quality of the Negro. Their head 

 is bound round with a cord or fillet of the doom leaf, like 

 the ancient diadem. The women are generally ill-favour- 

 ed, and go naked like the men. Thole that are married 

 have, for the moft part, a rag about their middle, fome of 

 them not that. Girls of all ages go quite naked, but 

 feem not to be confcious of any impropriety in their ap- 

 pearance. Their lips, eye-brows, and foreheads above the 

 eye-brow, are all marked with ftibium, or antimony, the 

 common ornament of favages throughout the world. They 

 feemed to be perfectly on an equality with the men, walk- 

 ed, fat, and fmoked with them, contrary to the pra&ice of 

 all women among the Turks and Arabs. 



We found no provifions at Sibt, and the water very bad. 



We returned on board our veffel at fun-fet, and anchored 



in eleven fathom, little lefs than a mile from the more. 



About eight o'clock, two girls, not fifteen, fwam off from 



the fhorc, and came on board. They wanted ftibium for 



their eye-brows. As they had laboured fo hard for it, I gave 



them a fmall quantity, which they tied in a rag about their 



neck. I had killed three marks this day ; one of them, very 



large, was lying on deck. I aiked them if they were not 



afraid of that lifli ? They faid, they knew it, but it would 



not hurt them, and dclired us to eat it, for it was good, 



and made men ftrong. There appeared no fymptoms of 



jealoufy among them. The harbour of Sibt is of a femi- 



circular form, fcreened between N. N. F.. and S. S. W. but 



to the foutli, and fouth weft, it is exoofed, and therefore is 



good only in fummei\ 



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