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out from the chin, the breaft, the armpits, arid 

 other parts* The general fmoothnefs, thus 

 given to the furface, has led Tome travellers* 

 who have been ignorant of the caufe, into 

 the error of confidering this to be their na- 

 tural appearance ; and hence have arifen the 

 ftrange opinions that they differed from Euro- 

 peans, and were in this refpe£t a peculiar race 

 of the human fpecies. The inftrument ufed 

 for pulling out the hairs is a fmall piece of 

 wood partially fplit. Thofe who intermix 

 with the cclonifts often employ a bit of wire, 

 twifted into a fpiral form, like that which is 

 ufed for making the elaftic hatbands. 



From the heat of the climate, and the 

 facility of procuring food, the Indians of 

 Guiana are naturally indolent. In every 

 quarter of the globe the great incentive to in- 

 duftry is either neceffity, intereft, or ambition, 

 Labour, fimply as fuch, is no where a natural 

 impulfe. It is the effe£t of our real, or ima- 

 ginary wants. Among the natives of thefe 

 woods, it fprings from neceffity alone, and 

 ce'afes with the immediate occafion which calls 

 it forth. They have no intereft in the accu- 

 mulation of property ; and therefore are not 



