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skin, the form of European garments. We saw 

 some at Pararuma, who were painted with a 

 blue jacket and black buttons. The mission- 

 aries related to us, that the Guaynaves of the 

 Rio Caura are accustomed to stain them- 

 selves red with anotta, and to make broad 

 transverse stripes on the body, on which they 

 stick spangles of silvery mica. Seen at a dis- 

 tance, these naked men appear to be dressed in 

 laced clothes. If painted nations had been ex- 

 amined with the same attention as clothed na- 

 tions, it would have been perceived, that the 

 most fertile imagination, and the most mutable 

 caprice, have created the fashions of painting, as 

 well as those of garments. 



Painting and tatooing are not restrained in 

 either of the two worlds to one race, or one 

 zone only. These kinds of ornaments are most 

 common among the Malay and American races ; 

 but in the time of the Romans they existed also 

 among the white race in the North of Europe. 

 As the most picturesque garments and modes of 

 dress are found in the Grecian Archipelago, and 

 Western Asia, so, the type of beauty in painting 

 and tatooing is diplayed by the islanders of the 

 South Sea *. Some clothed nations still paint 

 their hands, their nails, and their faces. It would 

 seem, that painting is then confined to those 

 parts of the body, that remain uncovered ; and 

 * In the Archipelago of Meudoza's islands. 



