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of the principal Men, on particular Occasi- 

 ons.^ and they put them on over the reft 

 of their Beads. We us'd to call thefe Ty- 

 gers-teeth, though I know not for what^chf" 

 Reafon , for I never faw any fuch Creature 

 there : Yet I have been informed there are Tygcr5 

 Tygers on the Continent. Some of our on the 

 Men who crofs'd the Ifthmus, told me, they Ifthmm 

 killed one there 5 and at another time, 

 when we went over withCapt. Sharp, fome 

 of the Men faid they faw a Tyger, who 

 ftood at a fmall diftance, and ftar d upon 

 them. I have heard alfo that there is a 

 fmall fort, but very fierce, in the Bay of 

 Cdmpeachy. 



But for the reft of them, both Men and Thc 

 Women, they wear not any Teeth, but 011- chains 

 lya few fcattering fometimes here and there j™* 

 in the Chains among the reft of the Baubles. ma 

 Each of them has, it may be, about the 

 Neck three or four Hundred Strings of 

 Beads, Shells, or the like, but thefe divi- 

 ded into feven or eight flanks 5 and the 

 Strings of each, by being turn 1 d a little a- 

 bout one another, make, as it were, fo ma- 

 ny Ropes of them. Thefe hang ufually 

 one below another, yet in no great order • 

 and the Women generally have theirs hang- 

 ing all on a Heap or Clufter. Whatever 

 Bugles or other fuch Toys they get, they 

 find a place for them among their Chains 5 

 which the heavier they be, the more Qrna*- 



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