iv Dr. thunberg's Journal of a 
Phyficians and priefts are the only exception to the general 
fafhion ; they fhave their heads intirely, and are by that means 
diftinguifhed from the reft of the people. 
The fafhion of their cloaths has alfo remained the fame from 
the higheft antiquity. They confift of one or more loofe gowns, 
tied about the middle with a fifth ; the women wear them much 
longer than the men, and dragging on the ground. In fummer 
they are very thin ; but in winter quilted with filk or cotton 
wadding 
People of rank have them made of filk ; the lower clafs of 
cotton fluffs. Women generally wear a greater number of 
them than men, and have them more ornamented, often with 
gold or filver flowers woven into the fluff. 
Tilde gowns are generally left open at the breaft ; their 
ileeves are very wide, but partly fewed up in front, fo as to 
make- a kind of pocket, into which they can eafily put their 
hands, and in this they generally carry papers, or fuch like 
light things. 
Men of confequence are diftinguifhed from thofe of inferior 
rank by a fhort jacket of thin black fluff, which is worn over 
their gowns, and trowfers open on the fides, but fewed toge- 
ther near the bottom, which take in their fkirts. Some ufe 
drawers, but ail have their legs naked. They wear fandals of 
ftraw, faftened to their feet by a bow pafling over the inftep, and 
a firing which pafles between the great toe and that next to it, 
fixing to the bow. In winter they have locks of linen, and in 
rainy or diity weather wooden flioes. 
They never cover their heads but on a journey, when they 
ufe a conical cap made of ftraw ; at other times they defend 
themfelves from the fun or the rain by fans or umbrellas. 
In their fafh they fatten the fabre, fan, and tobacco- 
pipe ; the fabre always on the left fide, and (contrary to our 
European cuftom) with thefharp edge uppermoft. Thofe who 
are in public employments wear two, the one confiderably 
longer than the other. 
Their houfes are built with upright polls, crofted and wattled 
with bamboo, plaiftered both without and within, and white-* 
i * wafhed 
