TRAVELS IN 
of fo many portraits in fliade. I ought to 
have left my card with each of thefe ladies, 
for I was not received by any of them. 
By little and little they . became however 
more familiar, and I at length faw myfelf fur- 
rounded by them. They prefented me milk 
on all fides ; but Narina was not yet among 
tlie number of thefe curious females. Hav- 
ing enquired for her, fom-e of them ran to 
fetch her and llie arrived foon after, bring- 
ing a balket of goats milk, quite warm, 
which file haftened to prefent to me. I drank 
fome of it, in preference to that offered by 
the reft ; both on account of the natural 
graces which fhe difplayed in giving it, and 
of the care (he had taken to make the vefTel 
clean, which was far from being the cafe 
with the reft. 
All thefe women, drefTed in theit richeft 
attire, freili greafed and boughoued^ and hav- 
ing their faces painted in a hundred different 
ways, fufficiently fhcwed what noife the 
news of my arrival had made in the horde, 
and the faigular refpefl: which they enter- 
tained for a ftranger. Narina had adorned 
herfelf with the prefents I had given her; 
but I obferved, with no little furprife, that fhe 
had 
