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the forehead and cheeks, and some of them red stripes on the face ; 

 others had black stripes lengthwise, and transverse strokes with 

 dots over the body ; a;nd many of the little children were marked all 

 over, like a leopard, with little black dots. This painting seems 

 to be arbitrary, and to be regulated by their individual taste. Some 

 of the girls wore a certain kind of ribbons round their heads ; and 

 the females in general fasten a bandage of bass or cord tightly round 

 the wrists and ancles, in order, as they say, to make those parts small 

 and elegant. 



The figure of the men is in general robust, squat, and often very 

 muscular ; the head large and round ; the face broad, with mostly 

 high cheek-bones ; the eyes black, small, and sometimes oblique ; 

 the nose short and broad, and their teeth very white : but some were 

 distinguished by sharp features, small aquiline noses, and very lively 

 eyes, which in very few of them have a pleasing look, but in most 

 a grave, gloomy, and cunning expression, shaded by their projecting 

 foreheads. 



One of the men was distinguished from all the rest by his Calmuck 

 physiognomy ; he had a large round head, the hair of which was all 

 cut to an inch in length ; a very muscular robust body ; a short thick 

 neck ; a broad flat face ; his eyes, which were placed obliquely, were 

 rather larger than those of the Calmucks usually are, very black, 

 staring, and wild ; the eye-brows were black, bushy, and much 

 arched ; the nose small, but with wide nostrils ; the hps rather thick. 

 This fellow, who, as our attendants said, had never been seen here 

 before, appeared to us all so formidable, that we unanimously de- 

 clared we should not like to meet him alone unarmed in a solitary 

 place. The Puris are in general very short, and all the Brazilian 

 tribes are inferior in this respect to the Europeans, and even to the 

 Negroes. 



All the men here carried their weapons, consisting of long bows 



