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instead of their ears as ours do ; they adorn their heads with 

 the feathers of the parroquet instead of those of the ostrich. 

 They are rather naked below, which appears indecent to 

 European ladies, who only expose the upper half of thdr 

 persons. 



The men are proud of one or two cloves which they are 

 allowed to wear on account of their great actions. We laugh 

 heartily at this, we Europeans do. Cloves! — to have their 

 arms and their legs broken for two or three cloves ! — EeaUy, 

 savages are droll creatures! Well now, we, when we expose 

 ourselves to fire and sword, we know what we are about, we 

 who are white, we who are enlightened and civilized. Well I 

 let them offer us cloves, would they be well received? No, 

 no, we are allowed to wear in a button-hole of our coat a 

 little bit of red riband; at a later period, perhaps, we may 

 tie it in a rosette, but everybody does not attain that honour. 



Still further, my friend, there is a great difference which 

 I have observed between the men of the different countries 

 of which I have read accounts in voyages. In France, for 

 instance, most men are ready to do anything for gold, for 

 louis. With these round pieces you can buy anything, even 

 that which ought not to be bought or sold. In England this 

 is not so ; see what it is to travel ! everything is to be bought 

 with guineas and sovereigns. In Spain, on the contrary, it is 

 with reals; in Italy, with ducats; in certain isles of America, 

 the same things are sold to you, but in return for certain 

 shells, whilst on the coast of AMca it is for gold-dust. It is 

 true that it is in all cases for money, and that the provisions 

 that are sold are the same, since money, in whatever shape 

 is every thing, without exception. 



