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they might be the Off- fp ring of fome European Fa- 

 ther ; But befides that the Europeans come little 

 here, and have little Commerce with the Indian-Wo- 

 men when they do come, thefe white People are as 

 different from the Europeans in fome Refpeds, as 

 from the Copper-colour'd Indians in others. And 

 befides, where an European lies with an Indian-Vfo- 

 man, the Child is always a Mofiefe, or Tawney, as 

 is well known to all who have been in the IVejl- In- 

 dies ; where there are Mojlefa's, Mullatto's, of fe- 

 veral Gradations between the White, and the Black 

 or Copper-colour'd according as the Parents are ; 

 even to Decompounds, as a Mullatto-Fina, the 

 Child of a Mulatto Man, and a Mo fie fa wo- 

 man, &c. 



and Pa- But neither is the Child of a Man and Woman of 

 rents of thefe white Indians, white like the Parents, but 

 fuch. Copper-colour'd as their Parents were. For fo L0- 

 centa told me, and gave me this as his Conjedture how 

 thefe came to be white, that 'twas through the 

 Force of the Mother's Imagination, looking on 

 the Moon at the Time of the Conception ; but this 

 I leave others to judge of. He told me withal, 

 that they were but fhort-liv'd. 

 Painting Both thefe and the Copper- coloured Indians ufe 

 their Bo- painting their Bodies, even of the fucking Children 

 Faces*^ fometimes. They make Figures of Birds, Beafts, 

 ace ' Men, Trees, or the like, up and down in every 

 Part of the Body, more efpecially the Face : But 

 the Figures are not extraordinary like what they re- 

 prefent, and are of differing Dimenfions, as their 

 Fancies lead them. 

 Women The Women are the Painters, and take a great 

 Painters. Delight in it. The Colours they like and ufe moft 

 are red, yellow and blue, very bright and lovely. 

 They temper them with fome kind of Oil, and 

 keep them in Calabafhes for ufe % and ordinarily 

 lay them on the Surface of the Skin with Pencils of 



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