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The Men would probably have white Briftles for 

 Beards, did not they prevent them by their Cuftom 

 of plucking the young Beard up by the Roots con- 

 tinually : but for the Down all over their Bodies, 

 they never try to get rid of it. Their Eye-brows 

 are Milk-white alfo, and fo is the Hair of their and Hair. 

 Heads, and very fine withal, about the Length of 6 

 or 8 Inches, and inclining to a Curl. 



They are not fo big as the other Indians ; and Smaller 

 what is yet more ftrange, their Eye-lids bend and thanthe 

 Open in an oblong Figure, pointing downward at^*^' 7 *" 

 the Corners, and forming an Arch or Figure of a 

 Crefcent with the Points downwards. From hence, 

 and from their feeing fo clear as they do in a Moon- Moen- 

 fliiny Night, we us'd to call them Moon-efd. For eyU 

 they fee not very well in the Sun, poring in the 

 cleareft Day ; their Eyes being but weak, and run- 

 ning with Water if the Sun ftiine towards them ; fo 

 that in the Day-time they care not to go abroad, un~ 

 lefs it be a cloudy dark Day. Befides, they are but 

 a weak People in Comparifon of the other, and not 

 fit for Hunting or other laborious Exercife, nor do 

 they delight in any fuch. But notwithftanding 

 their being thus fluggifh, and dull, and reftive in 

 the Day-time, yet when Moon-ftiiny Night's come, A&iveby 

 they are all Life and Activity, running abroad, Mooa- 

 and into the Woods, skipping about like Wild- flline ' 

 Bucks ; and running as faft by Moon-light, even in 

 the Gloom and Shade of the Woods, as the other 

 Indians by Day, being as nimble as they, tho' not 

 fo ftrong and lufty. 



The Copper -coloured Indians feem not to refpe<5l 

 thefe fo much as thofe of their own Complexion* 

 looking on them as fomewhat monftrous. They 

 are not a diftinft Race by themfelves, but now and 

 then one is bred of a Copper-colour'd Father and Of Cop- 

 Mother; and I havefeen a Child of lefs than a YearP^™" 

 old of this Sort, Some would be apt to fufpeft ^ r [ m% 



they 



