MR- LEDYARD's 
vage a temper, or of that fpecies of countenance that indicates 
favage intelligence. They appear a harmlefs, wild people ; but 
they are moilly young women. 
The beads they are ornamented with are Venetian; and they 
have fome Venetian brafs medals which the Venetians make for 
trade. The beads are worked wampum-wife. I know not where 
they got the marine fhells they worked among their beads, noF 
how they could have feen white men.- I afked them if they 
.would ufe me well in their country, if I fhould vifit it ? They 
faid, " Yes and added, that they fliould make a King of me, 
and treat me with all the delicacies of their country. Like the 
Egyptian women, and like moft other Savages, they ftick on or- 
naments wherever they can, and wear, like them, a great ring in 
the nofe, either from the cartilage, or from the fide : they alfo 
rub on fome black kind of paint round the eyes, like the Eg}^p- 
tian women. They are a fizeable well-formed people, quite black, 
with what, I believe, we call the true Guinea face, and with curled 
fhort hair ; but not more curled or fliorterthan I have feen it among 
the Egyptians ; but in general thefe Savages plait it in taffels 
plaiftered with clay or paint. Among fome of them the hair 
is a foot long, and curled, refembling exactly one of our mops. 
The prevailing colour, where it can be feen, is a black and red 
mixed. 
