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them to subjection was made in the middle of the CHAP, ix, 

 seventeentli century by Father Francisco of Pamplona, 

 a person of great zeal and intrepidity. The missions 

 subsequently formed among these people suffered greatly 

 in 1681, 1697, and 1720, from the invasion of the Caribs ; 

 while during six years subsequently to 1730 the popula- 

 tion was diminished by the ravages of the small-pox. 



The Chaymas are generally of low stature, their Fijirure and 

 ordinary height being about five feet two inches ; but stature 

 their figures are broad and muscular. The colour of the 

 skin is a dull brown inclining to red. The expression 

 of the countenance is sedate and somewhat gloomy ; the 

 forehead is small and retiring ; the eyes sunk, very long 

 and black, but not so small or oblique as in the Mon- 

 golian race ; the eyebrows slender, nearly straight, and ^ipieasion. 

 black or dark-brown, and the eyelids furnished with 

 very long lashes ; the cheekbones are usually high ; the 

 hair straight ; the beard almost entirely wanting, as in 

 the same people, from whom, however, they differ es- 

 sentially in having the nose pretty long. The mouth is 

 wide, the lips broad but not prominent, the chin ex- 

 tremely short and round, and the jaws remarkable for 

 their strength. The teeth are white and sound, the 

 toothach being a disease with which they are seldom 

 afflicted. The hands are small and slender, while the 

 feet are large, and the toes possessed of an extraordinary 

 mobility. They have so strong a family look, that on Family 

 entering a hut it is often difficult, among grown-up per- li^^^ncss. 

 sons, to distinguish the father from the son. This is 

 attributable to the circumstance of their only marrying 

 in their own tribe, as well as to their inferior degree of 

 intellectual improvement : the differences between un- 

 civilized and cultivated man being similar to those 

 between wild and domesticated animals of the same 

 species. 



As they live in a very warm country they are exces- Aversion to 

 sively averse to clothing. In spite of the remonstrances clotliing. 

 of the monks, men and women remain naked while 

 within their houses ; and, when they go out, wear only 



