28 A VOYAGE TO 
i 77 6. ufed to be fupplied by importation from the North Ameri- 
lU ^ ufr ' cans, who took their wines in return. 
They make a little filk; but unlefs we reckon the filter— 
ing-ftones, brought in great numbers from Grand Canary, 
the wine is the only confiderable article of the foreign 
commerce of Teneriffe. 
None of the race of inhabitants found here when the 
Spaniards difcovered the Canaries, now remain a diftindt 
people % having intermarried with the Spanifh fettlers ; 
but their defendants are known, from their being remark¬ 
ably tall, large-boned, and ftrong. The men are, in gene¬ 
ral, of a tawny colour, and the women have a pale com¬ 
plexion, entirely deftitute of that bloom which diftin- 
guifhes our Northern beauties. The Spanifh cuftom of 
wearing black clothes continues amongft them ; but the 
men feem more indifferent about this, and in fome mea- 
fure drefs like the French. In other refpechs, we found- 
the inhabitants of Teneriffe to be a decent and very civil 
people, retaining that grave cafl which diftinguifhes thofe 
of their country from other European nations. Although 
we do not think that there is a great fimilarity between our 
manners and thofe of the Spaniards, it is worth obferving,. 
that Omai did not think there was much difference; He 
only laid, “ that they feemed not fo friendly as the Eng- 
lifh; and that, in their perfons, they approached thofe of 
his countrymen.” 
* It was other wife in Glas’s time, when a few families of the Guanches (as they are, 
called) remained hill in Teneriffe, not blended with the Spaniards. Glas x p. 240. 
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