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feamen, and on their legs a fort of 

 knit bufkins without any feet to them ; 

 but never any llioes. Their hair is 

 always combed very fmooth, and tied 

 very tight up in a great bunch clofe to 

 the neck : fome wear a very neat har 

 of their own making, and others go 

 without. The women w^ear a fliift like 

 the mens fliirts, without fleeves ; and 

 over it a fquare piece of cloth, which 

 they faften before with a large filver 

 pin, and a petticoat of different ftripes: 

 they take as much care of their hair as 

 the men ; and both have always a kind 

 of fillet bound very tight about the 

 forehead, and made fall behind: in fliort, 

 thefe people are as cleanly as the feveral 

 favage nations we had met with before 

 were beaftly. Upon our firft coming 

 here, they had difpatched a meffenger 

 to the SpaniCh corregidore at Caftro, a 

 town a confiderablediftance from hence, 

 to inform him .of our arrival. At the 



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