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people do not make their faces ridiculous 
by pulling out their eyebrows like the Hot- 
tentots; they tattoo themfelves much, and 
particularly their bodies : they never greafe 
their hair, which is frizled in a very great 
degree ; but this is not the cafe with refpedt 
to the reft of their body, and they follow 
this pradlice merely with a view to preferve 
agility and vigour. 
The men generally beftow more attention 
on their drefs than the women; and they 
are remarkably fond of beads and cop-^ 
per rings. They, for the moft part, wear 
bracelets on their arms and legs, made of 
elephants tulks, which they form into natu-^ 
ral rings, of greater or lefs thicknefs, by 
fawing through the hollow part; after which 
they make them round on the outflde, and 
give them a fine pollfh. As tbefe large 
ring5 do not open, they muft be of fuch a 
iize that the hand can pafs through them, in 
order that they may be put upon the arm ; 
on which account they are always eafy, and 
move up and down one againft the other. If 
fmall rings of this kind are given to children, 
in proportion as they Increafe in years the 
vacuum is filled up ; and as they then ad- 
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