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of people of this country, that I never faw nor 
heard of any like them in any part of the world. 
“ They are white, and there are of them of both 
“ fexes 5 yet there are but few of them in compa- 
“ rifon of the copper-coloured, poffibly but one to 
“ two or three hundred. They differ from the 
other Indians chiefly in refpedl of colour, though 
“ not in that only. Their fkins are not of fuch a 
“ white, as thofe of fair people among Europeans, 
‘‘ with fome tindlure of a blufli or fanguine com- 
“ plexion *, yet neither is it like that of our paler peo- 
“ pie, but it is rather a milk-white, lighter than 
“ the colour of any Europeans, and much like that 
of a white horfe. 
“ For there is this further remarkable in them, 
“ that their bodies are befet all over, more or lefs, 
“ with a fine fliort milk-white down ; for they are 
“ not fo thick fet with this down, efpecially on the 
cheeks and forehead, but that the lldn appears di- 
“ flindt from it. Their eye-brows are milk-white 
“ alfo, and fo is the hair of their heads, and very 
■“ fine withal, about the length of fix or eight inches, 
“ and inclining to a curl. 
“ They are not fo big as the other Indians; and 
“ their eye-lids bend and open in an oblong figure, 
“ pointing downwards at the corners, and forming 
“ an arch or figure of a crcfcent with the points 
downwards. From hence, and from their feeing 
“ fo clear as they do in a moon-fhiny night, we 
“ ufed to call them moon-eyed. For they fee not 
well in the fun, poring in the cleareft day ; their 
“ eyes being but weak, and running with water if 
i‘ the fun fliine towards them ; fo that in the day- 
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