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with bine Surat cloth, fat three perfons cloathed fona he 
neck to the feet with blue cotton fhirts. - 
One of thefe, who I Foe was the favourite, was a- 
bout fix feet high, and corpulent beyond all proportion, 
She feemed to me, next to the elephant and rhinoceros, to 
be the largeft living creature I had met with. Her fea- 
tures were perfectly like thofe of a Negro; a ring of gold 
paffed through her under lip, and weighed it down, till, 
like a flap, it covered her chin, and left her teeth bare, 
which were very {mall ‘and fine. The infide of her lip fhe 
had made black with antimony. Her ears reached down 
to her fhoulders, and had the appearance of ‘wings; fhe 
had in each cf them a large ring of gold, fomewhat fmaller 
than a man’s little finger, and about five inches diameter, 
The weight of thefe had drawn down the hole where her 
ear was pierced fo much that three fingers might eafily 
pafs above the ring. She had a gold necklace, hike what 
we ufed to call Efclavage, of feveral rows, one below an- 
other, to which were hung rows of fequins pierced. She 
had on her ancles two manacles of gold, larger than any 
I had ever feen upon the feet of felons, with which I could 
not conceive it was poflible for her to walk, but afterwards I 
foundthey werehollow. The others were dreffed pretty much 
in the fame manner; only there was one that had chains 
which came from her ears to the outfide of each noftril, 
where they were faftened. There was alfo a ring put thro’ 
the griftle of her nofe, and which hung down to the open- 
ing of her mouth. I:think fhe muft have breathed with 
great difficulty. It had altogether fomething of the ap- 
pearance of a horfe’s bridle. Upon my coming near them, 
the eldeft ‘se her hand to her mouth and kiffed it, 
4 faying, 
