^ ' of the Ifthmus of America. 1 07 



jcount will feem fuange^ but any Privateers 

 who have gone over the Ifthmus muffc have 

 feen them, and can ateft the main of what 

 I am going to relate, though few have had 

 the opportunity of fo particular an Infor- 

 mation about thefe People as I havehad. 



They are White, and there are of them 

 of both Sexes $ yet there are but few of 

 them in companion of the Copper-colour'd, 

 poflibly but one to two or three hundred. 

 They differ from the other Indians chiefly in 

 refped of Colour, though not in that only. 

 Their Skins are not of fuch a White as 

 thofe of fair People among Europeans, with M | ! . k - 

 fome Tincture of a Blum or Sanguine Com- ^ml 

 plexiony neither yet is their Complexion 

 like that of our paler People, but 'tis rather ■ 

 3 Milk-white , lighter than the Colour of any 

 Enropeans,&ndmuch. like that of a whiteHorfe. 



For there is this further remarkable ill 

 them , that their Bodies are befet all over, 

 more or lefs, with a fine fhort Milk-white 

 pown, which adds to the whitenefs of their DQWn 

 Skins : for they are not fo thickfet with this 

 Down, efpecially on the Cheeks and Fore- 

 head, but that the Skin appears diftincl: 

 from it. The Men would probably have 

 white Briftles for Beards, did not they pre-r 

 vent them by their Cuftom of plucking the 

 young Beard up by the Roots continual W : 

 but for the Down ail over their Bodies,, 

 f:]iey' never try to get rid of it. Their Eye- 

 - i brows 



