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celTary, the nations covered only thofe parts of their body, * which, manners 

 by an almofl general agreemqnt, every nation on earth wiflies to 

 fcreen ; but though their males, were, to all appearance, equally 



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anxious in this refpe(5t with their females, this part of their drefs 

 ferved only to make that more confpicuous, which it intended to 

 hide j and this device feems to be invented with as little delicacy 

 and judgment as the famous cod-piece y which a few centuries ago 

 made part of a man's drefs in Europe , whether the care of pre- 



venting thefe parts from being wounded or hurt by branches of 

 trees, briars, and infers, or real principles of propriety and modefty 

 had firft induced them to ufe fo ftrange a method for covering their 

 genitals, I cannot decide ; however, among thefe fame nations we 



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obferved, that only the age of maturity infpired them with thefe 

 ideas of decency and modefly ; for their little boys were ftark- 



naked, and little girls, below the age of eight years,^ had no other 

 cover than a wifp of flraw before, and another behind, fixed to a 

 ilring tied- round the waifl. But though all thefe nations had no 



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Other parts of drefs, to fatisfy neceffity in a cold climate, or mo- 

 deily in a 



warmer -, they found it neverthelefs necelTary to ufe 



rious ornaments : in Tierra del Fuego, they painted their fac 



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^' It IS tlicrcfore remarkable, that in the engraved figure of a MaHicolcfc, which is found 



In Capt.Cocik's Narrative of the voyage, a drapery has been fprcad over the body of the 

 figuic, hi dlrecl oppofition to the univerfal cuftom of that country. 



