342 DIFFERENCES IN MANNERS. 



Abyssinian beauty, her eyes smile uncontrollably 

 as you look. Her figure is short, plump, and 

 roundly formed, with small, but full voluptuous 

 features, that appear blended together with an 

 infantile expression. 



The minds of both are uneducated and natural : in 

 this circumstance of their character, fortunately for 

 the eifect of the comparison, they may be supposed 

 to be alike. But are their dispositions or conduct 

 the same % How very different. The Indian girl has 

 considerable personal vanity, is fond of ornaments 

 and show, and seeks to attract attention by rich 

 clothes, or studied graces. Even in their national 

 attitudinizing, and the alluring nautch, repose and 

 quiet seem to distinguish her from the laughing, 

 romping, dress-neglecting Abyssinian, who, to 

 attract notice, affects the child, and endeavours to 

 please by artlessness and simplicity. As lovers, the 

 Indian girl capriciously selects one lord, but the 

 Abyssinian would consider this to be petty treason 

 against nature, and a crying sin ; she always loves 

 the nearest, and whilst the eyes of that one are 

 upon her, is reluctantly constant, but considers all 

 engagements quite at end by absence, however short. 

 Our coquettes, tall girls, with thin lips and cold 

 sparkling eyes, always remind me of the Indian 

 beauty, whilst our laughter-loving romps, even in 

 their features and form, seem to belong to the 

 Abyssinian mould, in some measure demonstrating 



