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unfavoured, nay, fome are very ugly : I faw but two, v^^ho had 

 bfs harfli lineaments, and a fmile upon their countenance. 



:e. Both 

 fexes have large holes in the lap of their ear, and wear feveral larp-e 



rings of tortoife-fhell in them; the feptum nariiun is likewife per- 

 forated, and they wear a flick or whitifli cylindrical ftone in it. 



The hair of thefe people is drelTed in the mofh curious and fmgular 



manner; for they take a fmall parcel of their hair, of the thicknefs 



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of a pigeons quill and queue it up in the outer rind of a convolvulus, 



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and thus they go on till they have finifhed the whole, which grows 

 very copiouily ; by this means their heads bear fome refemblancc 



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to a porcupine covered with prickly quills, 

 naked, and the genitals only, are curiouily -wrapped up in leaves tied 

 by a firing, and then tucked up to a rope which they wear round 

 their waifls. On their brcafls and arms are figures cut in, to which 

 they apply fome plant that raifes a fear above the refl of the fldn. 

 They are a good natured, friendly {(tt of men, exercifing hofpitality 



in a high degree. They feem to b-; 



valorous in encounterino- enemies. 



who are equal to them in arms j nay, before they perfectly knew how 



to, and more deflrudive than theirp. 



far 



our 



arms were fuperior 



a fmgle man v/ith a dart or ^im<^y would 



often fland in a path, and 



hinder a party of eight or ten 





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hey v/ere miilruHful and jealous in the beginning : 



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