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CHAP. ^ Orec in Europe, and are ftill cut in coal -grates, 

 "^ZLj fenders, &c. But for a more correal idea I muft refer the 

 reader to the annexed plate, where the children alone are 

 not painted. So very permanently does this paint adhere 

 to the ikin, that one of our officers, who could not be- 

 lieve the fa6t, having by way of a frolic made a pair of 

 enormous whilkers with it on his face, was obhgedj to our 

 great amufenient, to parade Paramaribo with them for 

 above a week, and wait till they gradually difappeared. 



The only drefs worn by thefe Indians confifts of a 

 flip of blacker blue cotton worn by the men to cover 

 their nakednefs, and called camifa ; fo uething like that 

 of the negroes. Being wound round their loins, it paffes 

 through between their thighs, and the ends of it, which 

 are very long, they either throw over their flioulders, 

 or negligently let them trail on the ground. For the 

 fame purpofe, the women wear an apron of cotton, with 

 party-coloured glafs beads ftrung upon it, which they 

 call queiou. This covering is of no great fize, being 

 9nly about one foot in breadth by eight inches in length, 

 oi'namented with fringes, and failened round the w^aift 

 wdth cotton firings ; but being heavy, though of no 

 larger dimenfions, it anfwers all the purpofes for which it 

 was intended. Many alfo wear a girdle made of human 

 hair round their waift, through which, before and behind, 

 they faften a fquare broad piece of black cotton, but 

 lighter, and without a train, like the camifa of the men : 

 both fexes wearing thefe belts or girdles fo low, that they 



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