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nd making fome of the infipid victuals more palatable^ and the manner 





quantities of the various kinds of fruit and meat which thefe 



drones can habitually fwallow are hardly credible. Nor have they 

 omitted to devife a method for procuring intoxication by the juice 

 and infulion of a kind of pepper-root. This fame opulence has 



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likewife been productive of diftindions in drefs and ornaments. 

 Their better people V7ear a variety of cloth difliind: in colour and 

 quality, and ufe it perhaps during a, few days only, v/lien they 



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immediately change it. The fine white, and very foft cloth is 

 the drefs of their chiefs, and their w£)men. have a kind of wrapper 

 or petticoat of a thin dark, brown cloth, which is perfumed with 

 their odoriferous coco-nut-oil. Red and yellow cloth of a very 

 foft texture, is likewife part of the drefs of the people of quality. 



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Befides the diflindion in drefs. th 



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ferved and 



attended by fome of the lowefl clafs of people, who drefs and 

 prepare their viduals, fetch, water, and even cram them like 

 animals that are to be fattened, and do all kind of fervice for them i 

 while they indulge themfelvcs in floth and idlenefs, bathe twice 



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matt, with a wooden fmall chair under the 



head inilead of a pillow ; and do no kind of work unlefs they walk 



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to fee a friend or relation, nor are they unlike our grandees, who 

 from mere opulence, plunge into luxury and fenfuality, and pur- 

 fue the gratification of their brutifli appetites, with the greateft 



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