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their physical and intellectual powers. I have 

 no where seen a taller race of men (from five 

 feet six inches, to five feet ten inches and 

 of a more colossal stature. The men, which is 

 common in Am erica f, are more clothed than 

 the women. The latter wear only the guajuco, 

 or perizoma, in the form of a band. The men 

 have the lower part of the body as far as the 

 hips wrapped in a piece of blue cloth, so dark as 

 to be almost black. This drapery is so ample, 

 that, when the temperature lowers toward the 

 evening, the Caribbees throw it over their shoul- 

 ders. Their bodies being tinged with onoto%, 

 their tall figures, of a reddish copper-colour, 

 with their picturesque drapery, projecting from 

 the horizon of the steppe against the sky as a 

 back ground, resemble antique statues of bronze. 

 The men cut their hair in a very characteristic 

 manner ; like the monks, or the children of the 

 choir. A part of the forehead is shaved, which 

 makes it appear extremely large. A large tuft 

 of hair, cut in a circle, begins very near the top 

 of the head. This resemblance of the Caribbees 

 to the monks is not the result of living in the 

 missions ; it is not owing, as it has been errone- 



* From five feet nine inches to six feet two, English, 

 nearly. 



| See above, vol. v, p. 362. 



J Rocou, obtained from the bixa orellana. This paint is 

 called in Caribbee Sicket. 



