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per buttons ; and they always go bare-legged, 
though moil of them wear fandals. 
Their drefs confifts of an apron that reaches 
only half down the thigh; a krofs which, paff- 
ing under the arm-pits, is tied on the breaft j 
and a long mantle like that of the men. 
The mantle is made of fkins not deprived 
of the hair ; and the krofs, of tanned leather 
prepared like that ufed for gloves in Europe. 
With regard to glafs beadsj they wear them 
as bracelets. They forni them alfo into neck^ 
laces, which defcend in different rows to the 
pit of the ftomach ; and they fufpend from, 
their girdles feveral firings of them, which fall 
down their thighs below the apron. 
Thefe ornaments being very durable, the 
habit of feeing them renders the women al- 
moii indifferent to the pleafure of pofTeffing 
them. Thofe they procured from me afforded 
at firft great fatisfadion, on account of their 
novelty. But when I fhewed them fciffars 
and needles, they gave the preference to thefe 
articles ; and this choice does honour to the 
good fenfe of the Kabobiqua ladies. Like 
their chief, they fet a higher value on utility 
than ornament. 
