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which they divide upon the crown of their head. It is 

 black and bufhy, and, although fufficiently long, feems to 

 partake of the woolly quality of the Negro. Their head 

 is bound round with a cord or fillet of the doom leaf, like 

 the ancient diadem. The women are generally ill-favour- 

 ed, and go naked like the men. Thofe that are married 

 have, for the moll part, a rag about their middle, fome of 

 them not that. Girls of all ages go quite naked, but 

 feem not to be confcious of any impropriety in their ap- 

 pearance. Their lips, eye-brows, and foreheads above the 

 eye-brow, are all marked with flibium, or antimony, the 

 common ornament of favages throughout the world. They 

 feemed to be perfectly on an equality with the men, walk- 

 ed, fat, and fmoked with them, contrary to the practice of 

 all women among the Turks and Arabs. 



We found no provifions at Sibt, and the water very bad. 

 We returned on board our vefTel at fun-fet, and anchored, 

 in eleven fathom, little lefs than a mile from the more. 

 About eight o'clock, two girls, not fifteen, fwam off from 

 the fliore, and came on board. They wanted flibium for 

 their eye-brows. As they had laboured fo hard for it, I gave 

 them a fmall quantity, which they tied in a rag about their 

 neck. I had killed three fharks this day ; one of them, very 

 large, was lying on deck. I afkca them if they were not 

 afraid of that fifh ? They faid, they knew it, but it would 

 not hurt them, and defired us to eat it, for it was good, 

 and made men flrong. There appeared no fymptoms of 

 jealoufy among them. The harbour of Sibt is of a femi- 

 circular form, fcreened between N. N. E. and S. S. W. but 

 to the fouth; and fouth weft, it is expofed, and therefore is 

 good only in fummer. 



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