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The women cover the tops of their heads with an ornament 

 like the creft of a helmet", and wear their hair in two trefles y , 

 in which they flick many fweet-fmelling herbs. They alfo ufe 

 the fame rings in their caps (which are of bone) as the men are 

 before defcribed to do, and cover their bodies with the fame fkins, 

 befides wliich they more decently wear an apron of the fame kind, 

 about a foot wide, with fome threads formed into a fringe. They 

 like wife «bind their legs in the fame manner with the men. 



The underlip of thefe women is fwelled out into three fafcias, 

 or rifings, two of which hTue from the corners of the mouth to 

 the loweft part of the beard % and the third from the highefl 

 point, and middle of that point to the lower, like the others % 

 leaving between each a fpace of clear flefh, which is much 

 larger in the young than in the older women, whofe faces 

 are generally covered with punctures b , fo as to be totally dis- 

 figured. 



On their necks they wear various fruits c , inftead of beads j; 

 fome of thefe ornaments alfb confifl of the bones of animals, or 

 fhells from the fea-coaft. 



This tribe of Indians is governed by a ruler, who directs 

 where they fhall go both to hunt and fifh for what the com- 

 munity flands in need of. We alfo obferved that one of thefe 

 Indians always examined. carefully the fea-fhoar, when we went 



* Copa de timbras. 



y Colgadas par las melillas. 



z That is, I fuppofe, what would be beard in men. 



a I muft own, that I do not thoroughly comprehend this defcription, 

 though I think I cannot have mis-tranflated it. 



fa Picadura y fo that I conclude thefe fwellings on the face, in fuch 

 forms as defcribed, muft be occafioned by a fort of tattooing, 



c Rather feeds perhaps. 



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