Part III. Travels into the INDIES. 3 7 
When it is very cold, the Indians wear over all the Cloaths I have been 
fpeaking of , a Garment or Veft called Cadeby, and then the Rich have Ca'^eby. 
very colUy ones. They are of Cloath of Gold, or other Rich Stuff, and Lovely Vefts 
are lined with Sables which coft very dear. 
At all times when they go abroad, they wear a Chal which, is a kind of r/&/»/ or Toilet, 
toilet of very fine Wool made at Cachmir. Thefe Chah are about two Ells 
long and an Ell broad j they are fold at five and twenty or thirty Crowns 
a piece if they be fine, nay there are fome that coft fifty Crowns, but thefe 
are extraordinary fine. They put that Cbal about their Shoulders, and tie 
the two ends of it upon their Stomack , the reft hanging down behind to 
the fmall of their Back. Some wear them like a Scarf, and fometimes they 
bring one end to the Head, which they drefsin manner of a Coif. They 
have of them of feveral colours, but thofe the Banians wear are moft com- 
monly Fild-de-mort^ and the Poor, or fuch as will not be at the charges, 
wear them of plain Cloath. 
The Turban worn in the Indies is commonly little. That of the Maho- '^^^ Turban of 
metans is always White, and the Rich have them of fo fine a Cloath, that 
five and twenty or thirty Ells of it which are put into a lurban^ will not where- 
weigh four Ounces. Thefe lovely Cloaths are made about Bengale : They eus do''no\° 
are dear, and one fingle Turban will coft five and Twenty Crowns. They weigh four 
who affe£l a Richer attire, have them mixed with Gold -, but a Turban of Ounces, 
that Stuff cofts feveral Tomans^ and I have faid elfewhere that a Toman is 
worth about forty five French Livres. 
Thefe Turbans wreathed as they ought to be, much refemble the fhape of The form of 
the Head, foi: they are higher behind by four or five Fingers breadth than the Tmbms at 
before, fo that the upper part of the Head is only well covered -, and I have 
feen Paifant women in France^ whofe Coiffing lookt pretty like that kind 
of Turban. 
The Indians wear their Hair for Ornament, contrary to thfe Mahome- The Mians 
tans who Oiave their Heads -, and inthat, as in many other things, the In- "'^^'^ "^^^i"^ 
dian? imitate their Anceftours. 
As for Stockings the Indians are at no charge, for they ufe ndther Stock- ^"«^ 
ings nor Socks, but put their Shoes on their naked Feet. The ftuff they 
are made of is Marocfuin, or T«r^ey-leather, and they are much of the fame 
fhape as the Papouches of the Turks but the Perfons of Quality have them 
bordered with Gold, and they have behind a kind of a heel of the fame 
ftuff as the inftip, which moit commonly they fold down, as they do who 
go with their Shoes flipfhod. However the Banians wear the heel of theirs 
up, becaufe being men of bufinefs they would walk with freedom, which 
is very hard to be done, when the Foot is not on all fides begirt with the 
Shoe. 
The Rich Banians cover the upper Leather of theirs with Velvet, Embro- The Shoes or 
dered with great Flowers of Silk -, and the reft are fatisfied with red Lea- Papouches of 
ther and fmall Flowers, or fome other Galantry of little value. Bmians. 
The Afo^a/ Women who would diftinguifh themfelves from others, jije^omens 
are Cloathed almoft like the Men \ however the fleeves of their Smocks, Apparel, 
as thofe of the other Indian Women, reach not below the Elbow, that they 
may have liberty to adorn the reft of their Arm with Carkanets and Brace- 
lets of Gold, Silver and Ivory, or fet with Precious Stones, as likewife they 
do the fmall of their Legs. The ordinary Smocks of the Indian Idolatrous 71,5 indiam 
Women, reach down only to the middle, as does the W afte-coat of Sat- smocks. 
tin or Cloath, which they wear over it, becaufe from the Wafte down- Their Wafte- 
wards they wrap themfelves up in a piece of Cloath or Stuff, that covers 
them to the Feet like a Petticoat -, and that Cloath is cut in fuch a manner, 
that they make one end of it reach up to their Head behind their Back. 
They wear no other Apparel neither within Doors, nor abroad in the 
Streets, and for Shoes they have high Pattins. 
They wear a little flat Ring of Gold or Silver in their Ears, with engra- The Indian 
ving upon it; and they adorn their Nofes with Rings which thev put Y°.""t? ^^"""^ 
through their Noftril./ e™"' 
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