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rings of thefe metals were alfo worn on the legs above the 
ankles. Glafs beads furrounded their necks ; and many of the 
men had porcupine quills ftuck through the ear. 
Neither had the wives of the chiefs any diftindion of drefs 
from the reft of the women. They all wore caps, made of 
fkins, fitting clofe to the head, and hanging behind, and down 
each fide, in long divided flaps. Each feemed to have deco- 
rated their drefs, without any fixed order, as caprice had fug- 
gefted, or as their circumftances would allow. Small beads of 
copper, rings of iron, brafs buttons, old knee-buckles, or what- 
foever metallic material had fallen into their hands, found a 
place on fome part of their drefs. Some had a brafs button 
ftuck in one ear, and in the other a ftring of glafs beads or a 
fhell. They had no change of habit, but each carried her 
whole wardrobe about her perfon. Some had not fewer than 
fifty different ftrings of necklaces about the neck ; a number of 
rings round their legs and arms of copper and iron ; and on 
their calf-flvin cloaks were ftitched feveral rows, from top to 
bottom, of old buttons, as various in fhape, fize, and fafhion, as 
a button-maker's card. Some had feftoons of fmall cyprsea 
ftiells round their caps ; others had made them into bracelets 
and necklaces. Sufpended from the neck moft of them carried 
the ftieli of a fmall land tortoife, (the teftudo pufilla^ which held 
a quantity of red ochre, and a thin piece of leather to rub it 
upon their faces. 
The young boys were perfedly naked ; and the only orna- 
ment about them v\?as a fmall tuft of the long white hair from 
the 
