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of the River Oronoque. Their ftature 

 and fize exceeds that of the Carribbees ; 

 the colour of their fkin is much darker, 

 and their features are more irregular 

 and difproportionate ; the females being 

 peculiarly difagreeable. They inhabit 

 only the low, wet, marfhy places, ad- 

 jacent to the fea, and live chiefly on 

 crabs and fifh. They are a flovenly, ti- 

 mid, indolent people ; but withal pa- 

 tient, contented, and happy. Many of 

 them have not fufficient induftry to pro- 

 cure the means of purchafing cloth to 

 cover their nakednefs, contenting them- 

 felves either with the bark of trees, or 

 the reticular covering of a coco-nut or 

 cabbage-tree for that purpofe ; yet they 

 are often feen with thin oval plates 

 of filver hanging from their nofes, to 

 which they are connected by two horns, 

 that embrace the cartilaginous divifion 

 of the noftrils. Their language is dif- 

 fonant, and the articulations very indi- 



ftindt, 



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