28 .m ACCOUNT UF THE WIIJJ TIUBES 



IVoni a waat afatleiition to clean tlieir bo- 

 dies at proper times; lliis bad smell is also 

 perceived even when tliey do not perspire, 

 but then much less so; and not to an e^t- 

 tcnl to incommode any except the more 

 delicaln, T\iv hair oi" tliti Jakuiis is hiack, 

 (trdinarilj IVi/led, bul vcr\ dillerent IVom 

 the crisp tiair of (lie Catlree. Some oi them 

 leave the whole to grow, and turn it round 

 the head, as tlie Gochin-Cfiinese; others, 

 as many ol" those ot Malacca, cut theirs en- 

 tirely; others, chiefly of the Menaugkabaw 

 states and ol Jolnue, shave tlie head, leav- 

 ing it only at tlie crown above three in- 

 ches in diameter where tliey never cut it, 

 the same as the Ohinese; and to provent 

 this head or hair from beitig hooked by the 

 branches ol trees in their sdvan habitations, 

 they tie it op in the form of a top knoL 

 They have scarcely any beard, and many 

 of them have none at all. The women leave 

 their hair to grow, and tlten lie it np in 



