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Now come we to their People. The Men 

 are generally very Civil and Sagacious, have 

 all of them good Faces, are of low ftature, 

 but very well built*, they are of a Copper 

 Colour, and have black Hair ; they us'd to 

 go naked, but are now as welt Cloath'd as 

 our felves^ they wear a Plate of Gold in their 

 Nofe, and a great many rows of Beads about 

 their Neck and Wrifts. They cover their 

 Yard with a piece of Bark, or fometimes 

 Silver,' of the very fliape and bignefs of that 

 Paper-cafe we ufe to put a dofe of Pills in ; 

 thef feem to be very ill furiiifti'd,- for I never 

 law any of them have it half amtnch longi 

 yfet no doubt it's longer, but L fancy they 

 iheath it up, as Dogs and Horfes do. The 

 • Women aire generally the moft pitiful like 

 tlnngs that ever Man faw 5 their HaWt dif- 

 fers .:ft6m the Men, for they ordinarily wear 

 Birig in their Nofe V tbe^; h^v^^ I^t^ticoats 

 and^^ Veil over their Face. ' They^ are under 

 no formal Government, but every Captain 

 commands his own River, Bay or Ifland^ 

 where he lives v the greateft of them all is 

 one Captain j4;?Jtr<?/«?V he commands particu- 

 larly the Counttya^^^ tht Samb allocs Point, 

 but when- he^ pleafes he can Levy all the 

 lyien betwixt that and the Gulf about 20 

 Leagues. There is another Captain Pedroy 

 that lives in the Houfe with jimbrofio ^ znd 

 is bis Nephew and Son iii Law i there is a 3d 

 Captain that commands the River 



Dds'arm^is ; a 4th Captain Brandy^ that com- 

 mands about the Golden IJland ^ a 5th Captain 

 Andreas^ that commands the Country adjoin- 

 ing to our Settlement i and a dth Captain 



