The Common People Have A Flat Cap Of Velvet,
Taffeta, Or Calico, On Their Heads, Cut Out In Many Pieces, And Neatly
Sewed Together, So As To Fit Close.
About their loins they wrap a piece
of calico made at Clyn, put on like a girdle, but at least a yard
broad, being mostly of two colours.
There come also from the same place
many sorts of white cloth, which they dye, paint, and gild, according to
their own fashions. They can also weave a kind of striped stuff, either
of cotton or the rinds of trees; but, owing to their indolence, very
little of that is made or worn. The men for the most part wear their
hair, which is very thick and curly, and in which they take great pride,
and often go bare-headed to show their hair. The women go all
bare-headed, many of them having their hair tucked up like a cart-horse,
but the better sort tuck it up like our riding geldings. About their
loins they wear the same stuffs like the men; and always have a piece of
fine painted calico, of their country fashion, thrown over their
shoulders, with the ends hanging down loose behind.
[Footnote 122: The editor of Astley's Collection substitutes the word
cassock at this place. - E.]
The principal people are very religious, yet go seldom to church. They
acknowledge Jesus to have been a great prophet, calling him Nabu Isa,
or the prophet Jesus, and some of them entertain Mahometan priests in
their houses:
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