138 SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



are too prone to venery), desdaine their wives 

 for them. Their cloathing is a petticoate, of 

 silke or cloath, with many silver or golden 

 laces, with a very broad double ribband of 

 some light colour, with long silver or golden 

 tags hanging down before, the whole length 

 of their petticoate to the ground, and the like 

 behind; their wascoats made like bodies, 

 with skirts, laced likewise with gold or silver, 

 without sleeves, and a girdle about their body 

 of great price, stuck with pearles and knots 

 of gold, (if they bee any waies well esteemed 

 of), their sleeves are broad and open at the 

 end, of Holland or fine China linnen, wrought 

 some with coloured silkes, some with silke 

 and gold, some with silke and silver, hanging 

 downe almost unto the ground ; the locks 

 of their heads are covered with some wrought 

 quoife, and over it another of networke 

 of silke bound with a fair silke, or silver 

 or golden ribband, which crosseth the 



