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fattened in fuch a manner round the circular hole 
which admits the man’s body, that not the leaft drop 
of water can get into it, either from rain or the fpray 
of the fea. 
The drefs of the women differs not from that of 
the men, excepting that they have long tails to their 
waiftcoats behind, which reach quite down to their 
heels j and their boots come up quite to their hips, 
which are there very wide, and made to ftand off 
from their hips with a ftrong bow of whalebone, for 
the convenience of putting their children in. I faw 
one woman with a child in each boot top. 
As to their perfons, they feem to be low ; but pretty 
broad built, and inclined to be fat : their hands re- 
markably ifnall ; their faces very broad and flat ; 
very little mouths, and their lips not remarkably 
thick ; their nofes final 1, and inclined to what is 
generally termed bottled ; their eyes are black as 
jet, and their eye-lids fo encumbered with fat, 
that they feem as if they opened them with diffi- 
culty j their hair is black, long, and flraight; and 
notwithftanding that they feem encumbered with 
a fuperfluity of flefh, they are remarkably brifk 
and adtive ; more efpecially in the management of 
their Kiacks, which exceeds every thing of the kind 
that I have feen. All I can fay with regard to their 
difpofition is, that if they really defefve the cha- 
racter which authors have given of them, they 
are the moft complete hypocrites that nature ever 
formed *. 
* It may not be amifs to obferve here, that I have had, whllfl 
at Churchill, an exceeding good opportunity of learning the 
difpofition of thofe people] as there are feveral of them come 
. * J ul y 
