448 "ULLOA's VOtAGE TO SOUTH AMERICA. 



• once got the money, he fpends it all in chicha *, fo that while it lafts he is never fober ; 

 and it is natural to think that it will not be eafy afterwards to prevail on him to work 

 ' for what he has fpent. 



The drefs here differs from that ufed in Spain, but lefs fo with the men than of the 

 women. The former, who wear a black cloak, have under it a long coat, reaching 

 down to their knees, with a clofe fleeve, open at the fides, without folds ; and along 

 the feams of the body, as well as thofe of the fleeves, are button-holes, and two rows 

 of buttons, for ornament. In every other particular, people of fortune affeft great 

 magnificence in their drefs, wearing very commonly the finefl gold and filver tiflues. 



The Meflizos in general wear blue cloth, manufaftured in this country. And though 

 the lowed clafs of Spaniards are very ambitious of diftinguilhing themfelves from them, 

 either by the colour or fafhion of the clothes, little difference is to be obferved. 



The mofh fingular dref«, with regard to its meannefs, is that of the Indians, which 

 confifts only of white cotton drawers, made either from the (luffs of the country, or 

 from others brought from Europe. They come down to the calf of the leg, where 

 they hang loofe, and are edged with a lace fuitable to the fluff. The ufe of a fhirt is 

 fupplied by a black cotton frock, wove* by the natives. It is made in the form of a 

 fack, with three openings at the bottom, one in the middle for the head, and the 

 others at the corners for the arms, and thus cover their naked bodies down to the 

 knees. Over this is a capifayo, a kind of ferge cloak, having a hole in the middle for 

 putting the head through, and a hat made by the natives. This is their general drefs, 

 and which they never lay afide, not even while they fleep. And ufe hasfo inured 

 them to the weather, that without any additional clothing or covering for their legs or 

 feet, they travel in the coldefl parts with the fame readinefs as in the warmefl. 



The Indians who have acquired fome fortune, particularly the barbers and phleboto- , 

 miffs, are very careful to dillinguifh themfelves from their countrymen, both by the 

 finenefs of their drawers, and alfo by wearing a fhirt, though without fleeves. Round 

 the neck of the fliirt they wear a lace four or five fingers in breadth, hanging entirely 

 round like a kind of ruff or band. One favourite piece of finery is filver or gold buckles 

 for their fhoes ; but they wear no ftockings or other coverings on their legs. Inflead 

 of the mean capifayo, they wear a cloak of fine cloth, and often adorned with gold or 

 filver lace. 



The drefs of the ladies of the firft rank confifts of a petticoat already defcribed in our 

 account of Guayaquil. On the upper parts of their body they wear a fhift, on that a 

 loofe jacket laced, and over all a kind of bays, but made into no form, being worn juft 

 as cut from the piece. Every part of their drefs is, as it were, covered with lace ; and 

 thofe which they wear on days of ceremony are always of the richeft ftuffs, with a pro- 

 fufionof ornaments. Their hair is generally made up in treffes, which they form into a 

 kind of crofs, on the nape of the neck ; tying a rich ribband, called balaca, twice round 

 their heads, and with the ends form a kind of rofe at their temples. Thefe rofes are 

 elegantly intermixed with diamonds and flowers. When they go to church, they fome- 

 times wear a full petticoat ; but the moft ufual drefs on thefe occafions is the veil. 



The Meftizo women affect to drefs in the fame manner as the Spanifh, though they 

 cannot equal them in the richnefs of their fluffs. The meaner fort go barefooted. Two 

 kinds of dreffes are worn by the Indian women ; but both of them made in the fame 

 plain manner with thofe worn by the men : the whole confifting of a fhort petticoat, and 

 M veil of American bays. The drefs of the loweft clafs of Indian women is in effect 



* A kind of beer or ale made of maize, and very intoxicating. 



only 



