VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
really pretty, wear tlieir fine long black hair plaited, and 
faftened with a comb, or a ribbon, on the top of the head. 
The common people, and in this they refemble the inha- 
bitants of moft of the iilands in the Pacific Ocean lately dif- 
covered, have a ftrong fpice of furacity in them; they are 
befides lazy ; and the moft importunate beggars in the 
world: I obferved likewife, that the itch was fo commoa 
among them, and had attained fuch a degree of virulence, 
that one would almoft be led to believe it was epidemic 
there. 
Some of the women are fo abandoned and iliamelefs, that 
it would be doing an injuftice to the proftitutes met with in 
the ftreets of London, to fay they are like them. The fe- 
males of every degree are faid to be of .an amorous conftitu- 
tion, and addided to intrigue; for which no houfes could 
be better adapted than thofe in TenerifFe. 
The manu failures carried on here are very few, and the 
product of them little more than fufiicient for their own 
confumption. They confift of taifeties, gauze, coarfe linens, 
blankets, a little filk, and curious garters. The principal 
<lependance of the inhabitants is on their wine (their ftaple 
conimodity), oil, corn, and every kind of ftock for fiiipping. 
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