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k is natural to think that it will not be eafy afterwards 

 to prevail on him to work for what he has fpent. 



The drefs here differs from that ufed in Spain, but 

 lefs fo with the men than of the women. The 

 former, who wear a black cloak, have under it a long 

 coat,-reaching down to their knees, with a clofe fleeve, 

 open at the fides, without folds and along the feams 

 of the body, as well as thofe of the fleeves, are but- 

 ton-holes, and two rows of buttons, for ornament. 

 In every other particular, people of fortune affe6l great 

 magnificence in their drefs, wearing very commonly 

 the fineft gold and filver tiffues. 



The Meftizos in general wear blue cloth, manufac- 

 tured in this country. And though the lowed clafs of 

 Spaniards are veiy ambitious of diftinguilhing them- 

 felves from them, either by the colour or fafhion of the 

 cloaths, little difference is to be obferved. 



The miOft lingular drefs, with regard to its mean- 

 riefs, is that of the Indians, which confifts only of 

 white cotton drawers, made either from the ftuffs of 

 the country, or from others brought from Europe. 

 They come down to the calf of the leg, where they 

 hang loofe, and are edged with a lace fuitable to the 

 fluff. The uie of a fhirt is fupplied by a black cotton 

 frock, wove by the natives. It is made in the form of 

 a fack, with three openings at the bottom, one in the 

 middle for the head, and the others at the corners for- 

 the arms, and thus cover their naked bodies down to 

 the knees. Over this is a capifayo, a kind of ferge 

 cloak, having a hole in the middle for putting the 

 head through, and a hat, made by the natives. This 

 is their general drefs, and which they never lay afide, 

 not even while tbey Deep. And ufe has fo inured 

 them to the vv^eather, that, without any additional 

 cloathing or covering for their legs or feet, they travel 

 in the coldeft parts with the fame readinefs as in the 

 warmeft. 



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