tj3e G arrow Hills. 



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fame fft&nner as the flap, ferving to keep their half off their fate, which 

 gives them a wild fierce appearance. Some tye their hair on the crown, 

 in a loofe carelefs manner, while others crop it clofe. The Booneahs or 

 chiefs wear a filk turban ; to the girdle they affix a bag Containing their 

 money and pawns, and al (o a net for holding the utcnfils with which thejr 

 light their pipe hung near to, it by a chain. 



The women are the uglieft creatures I ever beheld, fhort and fquat in their 

 flature, with mafculine faces, in the features of which they differ little 

 from the men. Their drefs confifls of a dirty red cloth, flriped with blue 

 or white, about fix teen inches broad, which encircles thewaifl, and covers 

 'about three fourths of the thigh. It never reaches to the knee, and being 

 but jufl long enough to tie above on the left fide, part of the left thigh, 

 when they walk, is expofed.. On their necks they have a firing of the or- 

 naments above defcribed refemblmg tobacco pipes, twifled thirty or forty 

 • times round, but negligently, without any attention to regularity; their 

 breafls are expofed to view, their only clothing being the girdle above- 

 mentioned ; to their ears are affixed numbers of brafs rings, increafing 

 in diameter from three to fix inches : I have feen thirty of thofe rings in- 

 each ear ; a flit is made in the lobes of the ear, which increafe from the 

 weight of the rings, and in time will admit the large number flaied. This 

 weight is however partly fupported by a firing, which paffes over their 

 heads j a tape three inches broad ties their hair, (a as to keep it back 

 from their foreheads, though generally it is tied with a firing on the crown' 

 of trie head. The wives of the' Booneahs cover their heads with a piece 

 of coarfe cloth, thirteen or fourteen inches bro^id and two feet long, the end 

 of which, with their liair, hangs down behind, flowing loofe on their 

 backs c The women work as woll as the men, and I have feen them cairy 



