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Befide the kind of decoration which I have 
juft defcribed, the Greater Nimiquas ufe an- 
other, that of daubing their hair with a thick 
layer of greafe, mingled with the powder of 
different odoriferous woods. Many of them 
tattoo their faceSj arms, and even bodies. But 
the latter cuiiom is not fo prevalent among 
them, as among other people more to the 
north. This too may be a native cuftom, 
which the fame fpirit of coquetry that gave 
rife to it in other nations may have equally 
prompted the Nimiquas to invent. 
As to religion, divine worihip, priefts, tem- 
ples, and the idea of an immortal foul, they 
are ail non-entities to them. On thefe fub- 
jefts, like all the reft of the favages their neigh- 
bours, they have not the flighteft notion. 
Nature has told them, fufficien;^^ plain, not 
to do to another what they would not another 
fhould do to them ; and their little afTociations, 
■which- are a commencement of civilization, 
lead them in this refpedt farther than many 
cultivated people, by enjoining them to do to 
pthers as they would be done by, ' 
I know not whether I ought here to relate 
an abfurd cuftom pradifed by the Nimiquas^ 
whicha 
