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as they rub their bodies conftantly over with a red paint, of 
a clayey of coarfe ochry fubftance, mixed with oil, their 
garments, by this means, contrail a rancid offenlive fmell, 
and a greafy naftinefs. So that they make a very wretched 
dirty appearance; and what is Hill worfe, their heads and 
their garments fwarm with vermin, which, fo depraved is 
their tafte for cleanlinefs, we ufed to fee them pick off with 
great compofure, and eat. 
Though their bodies are always covered with red paint, 
their faces are often flained with a black, a brighter red, or 
a white colour, by way of ornament. The laft of thefe gives 
them a ghaflly, difgufting afpeil. They alfo ftrew the 
brown martial mica upon the paint, which makes it glitter,. 
The ears of many of them are perforated in the lobe, where 
they make a pretty large hole; and two others higher up 
on the outer edge. In thefe holes they hang bits of bone; 
quills fixed upon a leathern thong; fmall fliells; bunches 
of woollen taffels; or pieces of thin copper, which our beads 
could never fupplant. Th efeptum of the nofe, in many, is 
alfo perforated, through which they draw a piece of foft 
cord; and others wear, at the fame place, fmall thin pieces 
of iron, brafs, or copper, fhaped almoft like a horfe-fhoe, 
the narrow opening of which receives the feptum , fo as that 
the two points may gently pinch it; and the ornament thus 
hangs over the upper lip. The rings of our brafs buttons, 
which they eagerly purchafed, were appropriated to this 
ufe. About their wrifts they wear bracelets or bunches 
ol white bugle beads, made of a conic fhelly fubftance; 
bunches of thongs, with taftels ; or a broad black firming 
.Jiorny fubftance, of one piece. And about their ancles they 
alfo frequently wear many folds of leathern thongs, or the 
finews of animals twilled to a confiderable thicknels, 
Tql. II. R r Thus 
1778. 
April. 
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