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direction to the outer; the effect of this was excellent. 
Although the men of Obbo wear a skin slung across 
their shoulders and loins, the women are almost naked, 
and, instead of wearing the leather apron and tail of 
the Latookas, they are contented with a slight fringe 
of leather shreds, about four inches long by two broad, 
suspended from a belt. The unmarried girls are 
entirely naked; or, if they are sufficiently rich in 
finery, they wear three or four strings of small white 
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beads, about three inches in length, as a covering. 
The old ladies are antiquated Eves, whose dress con¬ 
sists of a string round the waist, in which, is stuck a 
bunch of green leaves, the stalks uppermost. I have 
seen a few of the young girls that were prudes, indulge 
in such garments; but they did not appear to be 
