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dark brown colour, orcameiited wkh fteel 
buttons, cut facet-Wife: this I made my drefs 
of ceremony ; as the rays of the fun, falling 
upon the different facets, would by their re- 
flexion form a fplendour very proper for 
exciting the admiration of thefe favages. 
Under this frock I wore a white veft ; and in 
place of boots I fubftituted a pair of nankeen 
drawers, which always appeared to me equal- 
ly noble. In my wardrobe I had ftill a pair 
of European (hoes, which I put on my feet; 
and I did not forget my large filver buckles, 
as they were by chance exceedingly brilliant. 
I wiflied much to have a gold-laced hat, but 
this I was obliged to do without ; and, as my 
drawers rendered my fet knee-buckles of no 
ufe, I made a clafp of them, with which I 
fixed to my hat, fuch as it was, a magnificent 
plume compofed of oftricli's feathers that had 
their full length. 
But how much was I pained for the fur- 
niture of my horfe, which did not correfpond 
with the ornaments of his mafler ! Inftead of 
that magnificent panther's Ikin which in 
France would have been accounted fuperb^ 
and which was nothing in the eye of a favage, 
what a flaming figure would one of thofc 
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