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behaviour, at leaft as much as we faw of it. They 
wear a kind of boots, which ferves them likewife for 
fhoes j but I know not if they wear any kind of 
drawers or breeches. The upper part of their gar- 
ments being loofe about their fhoulders, they did not 
feem cautious of hiding from fight that part of their 
bodies j they have fine white teeth, but their hands 
and feet feemed to me rather fmall, for fuch flour, 
lufly people, by which 1 imagine they are not ufed 
to much hard work. The men and women are 
cloathed alike, fo that it requires a little attention to 
diftinguifh the fex. Altogether they are the finefl 
fet of men I ever faw any where before : there feems 
to be fome fubordination amongft them j fome had 
their cloathing painted on the outfide, in different 
fquares, ffrokes, and lines ; thefe 1 obferved feemed 
to have fome authority over the reft. When we 
went to re-imbark in our boats to return to the 
(hips, moft of them wanted to go off with us; we 
took a few of them in each boat, and carried them 
on board of each fhip, by which the companies cu- 
riofity was fatisfied as well as ours. We regaled them 
with fuch things as we had j they eat fait beef, but 
feemed moft fond of the fhip’s bifcuit, nor did they 
feem to like much the wine or ftrong liquors, but 
drank water by tumblers full. We gave them pipes 
of tobacco, which they fmoaked, and did not feem 
ftrangers to it ; they fwallowed the fmoak, as the 
Turks and many other nations do. They feemed 
very free and eafy, no ways miftruftful, or. afraid to 
truft themfelves in any part of the fhip with us ; and 
they very willingly would have flayed longer with 
us, for we found fome little difficulty to make them 
