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which is of itself sufficient to distinguish them from the Ciii- 
ffiese. Their houses are also neater and better constructed, 
though of the same materials and furnished quite alike. 
The dress of the higher orders of the Candians consists of 
several folds of cotton cloth, or calico drawn close round their 
waists ; while another piece of the same, after being wrapped 
round the bod}q has the one end tucked up at the back, 
while the other is drawn together between the legs, or hangs 
straight down to the ancles. Their arms, shoulders, and chest 
are bare. On their heads they wear a sort of cap, or turban, 
of a shape peculiar to themselves : it h^as no resemblance to that 
worn by the natives of the continent or tlie Cingiese ; it is broad 
and flat at top and narrow towards the lower part, and is stiffened 
with conjee, a species of starch made of rice. Over their 
shoulders, or round their waists, they wear a belt, to which a 
dagger or short hanger is suspended. A purse, like that in 
the dress of the Scots Highlanders, is worn before them, and 
is employed to hold betel-leaf, areka-nuts, and tobacco. They 
have commonly, however, a boy to attend them with a box 
of ivory or tortoise-shell replenished with these materials. An 
umbrella of the talipot leaf is their constant and necessary 
attendant when they walk abroad in the day time. They all 
wear rings on their fingers ; few of them in their ears, as this 
is one of those indifferent articles in which the King shews 
his supreme authority by entering his royal prohibition. The 
chief distinction in the dress of the higher orders among the 
Candians and the Cingiese is in the form of the cap, and 
the immense quantity of cloth worn round the waist by the 
former. 
The appearance of the lower orders among both is in 
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