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breasts ; and the saya, from the waist downwards 
(corresponding to what you call a skirt ") ; some- 
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Fig. 12. — RuFiNA, sister 
of Maria (3 years-old). 
Fig. II. — Maria (8 years old). 
times the two meet and sometimes there is a space 
between them. Young girls until marriageable 
have rarely more than one of these garments — 
either upper or lower, nimporte ; 
but whichever it is, when a 
stranger approaches one of these 
sitios far away up the igarapes 
or lakes, the bashful maiden lifts 
her only garment to shade her 
eyes from the white man's gaze ; 
thus reminding me of what I have 
read of Circassian girls in the 
slave-market at Cairo. [While 
here Spruce made pencil drawings fig. 13.— Anna, 
of three children of these half- 
breed families, which, though 
crude as works of art, give a very good repre- 
sentation of the features and expression of such 
children in many parts of the Lower Amazon. 
cousin 
of Maria and Rufina 
(8 years old). 
