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The Indians who have acquired fome fortune, 

 particularly the barbers and phlebotomifts, are very 

 careful to diftinguifh themfelves from their country- 

 men, both by the finenefs of their drawers, and alfo 

 by wearing a fhirt, though without fleeves. Round 

 the neck of this fhirt they wear a lace four or five fin- 

 gers in breadth, hanging entirely round like a kind of 

 ruff or band. One favourite piece of finery is filvcr 

 er gold buckles for their fhoes ^ but they wear no 

 ftockings or other coverings on their legs. Inftead of 

 the mean capifayo, they wear a cloak of fine cloth, and 

 often adorned with gold or filver lace. 



The drefs of the ladies of the firft rank confifts of 

 a petticoat already defcribed in our account of Guaya- 

 quil. On the upper parts of their body they wear a 

 fliift, on that a loofe jacket laced, and over all a kind 

 of bays, but made into no form, being worn juft as 

 cvu from the piece. Every part of their drefs is, as 

 it were, covered with lace ; and thofe which they wear 

 on days of ceremony, are always of the richefl ftuffs, 

 with a profufion of ornaments, Their hair is gene- 

 rally made up in trefTes, which they form into a kind 

 of crofs, on the nape of the neck ; tying a rich rib- 

 band, called balaca, twice round their heads, and with 

 the ends form a kind of rofe at their temples. Thefc 

 rofes are elegantly intermixed with diamonds and flow- 

 ers. When they go to church, they fometimes wear 

 a full petticoat ; but the mofl iifual drefs on thefe oc- 

 cafions is the veil. 



The Meftizo women affed to drefs in the fame man- 

 ner as the Spanifli, though they cannot equal them in 

 the richnefs of their fluffs. The meaner Ibrt go bare- 

 footed. Two kinds of dreffes are worn by the Indian 

 women ; but both of them made in the fame plain 

 manner with thofe worn by the men : the whole con- 

 fifting of a fhort petticoat, and a veil of American bays. 

 The drefs of the lowed clafs of Indian women is in 

 CiTed: only a bag of the fame make and fluff as the 



frocks 



