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MODES OF DRESSING THE HAIR. 
last rain of this season had fallen on the 28th, and had 
suddenly been followed by a great decreaso of tho tempera- 
ture. Tho people in these parts seemed more slender in 
form, and thoir color a lighter olive, than any wo had 
hitherto mot. Tho modo of dressing great masses of 
woolly hair which lay upon their shou.uors, together with 
thoir general features, again reminded me of tho ancient 
Egyptians. Several were seen with the upward inclination 
of tho outer angles of tho eye ; but this was not goneral 
LADY'S HEAD-DRESS OF WOVEN HAIR. 
A few of tho ladies adopt a curious custom of attaching 
tho hair to a hoop which encircles tho head, giving it somo- 
what tho appearance of tho glory round tho head of the 
Virgin, as shown on p. 295. Some have a small hoop behind 
that represented in the wood-cut. Others wear an orna- 
mont of woven hair and hide adorned with beads. Tho 
hair of the tails of buffaloes, which aro to be found farther 
