EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



almoft Aide down over their buttocks, and make their 

 bodies appear wonderfully long. 



In the inland parts, many Indians of both fexes go quite 

 naked, without any covering whatever. The Indian wo- 

 men alfo, by way of ornament, often cut fmall holes in their 

 ears and their lips, in the firft of which they wear corks or 

 fmall pieces of light wood, and through their lips they Itick 

 thorns, and fometimes all the pins they can lay hold of, 

 with the heads infide againft the gums, and the points 

 like a beard dangling down upon their chins. Some 

 wear feathers through their cheeks and through their 

 nofes, though this is but feldom. But the moft unac- 

 countable ornament in my opinion is, that the girls at 

 ten or twelve years old work a kind of cotton garter 

 round their ankles, and the fame below the knee; which 

 being very tight, and remaining for ever, occalions their 

 calves to fwell to an enormous fize by the time they are 

 grown women, and gives their limbs a very odd and 

 unnatural appearance. They alfo wear girdles, bands, 

 and bracelets, of various coloured beads, lliells, and fifli- 

 teeth, about their necks, acrofs their flioulders, or 

 round their arms, but generally above the elbow. Upon 

 the whole, the Indian women, naturally difagreeable in 

 their Ihapes, with their toes turned inwards, are ftill 

 lefs attractive by their ornaments. But from this gene- 

 neral defcription I muft exempt one caft in particular^ v 

 called Arrowouks-i whom I fliall defcribe in their proper 

 place. 



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