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Anointing 

 them- 

 lelves. | 



Mr: WAFER'/ "Defcription 



nuing painted of this Colour till the firft New-moon 

 (as I remember ) after the Fa6l is done. 



Their Natural Complexion is a Copper- Colour^ 

 or Orange-tawney ; and their Eye-brows are natu- 

 rally black as Jet. They ufe no Art to deepen the 

 Colour either of their Eye-brows, or the Hair of 

 their Head ; but they daub it with Oil to make it 

 fhine ; for, like other Indians, they anoint them- 

 felves all over, whether for Beauty to make the Skin 

 fmooth and fleek, or to fupple it and keep it from 

 parching, or to hinder too much Perfpiration in this 

 hot Country, I know not. 



There is one Complexion fo fingular among a 

 Sort of People of this Country, that I never faw 

 nor heard of any like them in any Part of the 

 World. The Account will feem ftrange but any 

 Privateers who have gone over the Ifihmus muft 

 have feen them, and can atteft the main of what I 

 am going to relate, though few have had the Op- 

 portunity of fo particular an Information about 

 thefe People as I have had. 



They are white, and there are of them of both 

 Sexes ; yet there are but few of them in Comparifon 

 of the Copper-colour'd, poflibly but i to 2 or 300. 

 They differ from the other Indians chiefly in Re- 

 fpeft of Colour, though not in that only. Their 

 Skins are not of fuch a White as thofe of fair People 

 among Europeans, with fome Tindture of a Blufh 

 or Sanguine Complexion ; neither yet is their Com- 

 plexion like that of our paler People, but 'tis ra- 

 ther a Milk-white, lighter than the Colour of any 

 Europeans, and much like that of a white Horfe. 



For there is this further remarkable in them, that 

 their Bodies are befet all over, more or lefs, with a 

 fine fhort Milk-white Down, which adds to the 

 Whitenefs of their Skins : for they are not fo thick- 

 fet with this Down, efpecially on the Cheeks and 

 Foreheadj but that the Skin appears diftind from it. 



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