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118 TRAVELS IN 
Their clothing is very slight ; the men wear generally a 
broad brimmed hat, a blue shirt, and leather pantaloons, no 
stockings, but a pair of dried skin shoes. The women have 
a thick quilted cap that ties with two broad flaps under the 
chin, and falls behind across the shoulders ; and this is con- 
stantly worn in the hottest weather; a short jacket and a 
petticoat, no stockings, and frequently without shoes. The 
bed for the master and mistress of the family is an oblong 
frame of wood, supported on four feet, and reticulated with 
thongs of a bullock's hide, so as to support a kind of mattress 
made of skins sewed together, and sometimes stuffed with 
wool. In winter they use woollen blankets. If they have a 
table it is generally of the boor's own making, but very often 
the large chest that is fitted across the end of their ox-waggon 
serves for this purpose. The bottoms of their chairs or stools 
are net-work of leather thongs. A large iron pot serves 
both to boil and to broil their meat. They use no linen 
for the table ; no knives, forks, nor spoons. The boor car- 
ries in the pocket of his leather breeches a large knife, with 
which he carves for the rest of the family, and which stands 
him in as many and various services as the little dagger of 
Iludibras. 
Their huts and their persons are equally dirty, and their 
whole appearance betrays an indolence of body, and a low 
groveling mind. Tiieir most urgent wants are satisfied in the 
easiest possible manner; and for this end they employ means 
nearly as gross as the original natives, whom they affect so 
much to despise. If necessity did not sometimes set the in- 
