COMMUNICATIONS. 
Ruffian and Greek drefs. The fillet round the temples of the 
Greek and Ruffian women, is a circumftance in drefs that per- 
haps would ftrike nobody as it does me ; and fo of the wampum 
work too, which is alfo found among them both. 
They fpin here with the diftaff and fpindle only, like the 
French peafantry and others in Europe ; and the common Arab 
loom is upon our principle, though rude. 
I faw to-day (Auguft i oth) an Arab woman white, like the 
White Indians in the South Sea Iflands, Ifthmus of Darien, &c. 
Thefe kind of people all look alike. 
" Among the Greek women here, I find the identical Arch- 
angel head-drefs. 
" Their mufic is inftrumental, confifting of a drum and pipe, 
both which refemble thofe two inftruments in the South Seas : 
the drum is exa£lly like the Otaheite drum ; the pipe is made 
of cane, and confifts of a long and fliort tube joined : the mufic 
refembles very much the bagpipe, and is pleafiint. All their 
mufic is concluded, if not accompanied, by the clapping of hands. 
I think it fingular, that the women here make a noife with their 
mouths 
