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off Young Nicks head 

the wearer   generaly stuck into the knot  sometimes one on each side the temples pointing forwards which made a most disagreable apearance  in their Ears they generaly wore a large bunch of the down of some bird milk white   the faces of some were painted with a red colour in oil some all over  others in parts only  in their hair was much oil that had very little smell  more lice than ever I saw before! & in most of them a small comb neatly enough made  sometimes of wood sometimes of bone  which they seemd to prize much. Some few had on their faces or arms regular scars as if made with a sharp instrument  such I have seen on the faces of negroes. the inferior sort were clothd in something that very much resembled or perhaps realy was hemp   the loose strings of this were fastned together at the top & hung down about 2 feet long like a petticoat  of these garments they wore 2 one round their shoulders the other about their wastes. the richer had garments probably of a finer sort of the same stuff  most beatifully made in exactly the same manner as the S American indians at this day  as fine or finer than one of them which I have by me that I bough at Rio de
 

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