South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  Some also wear a similar
cloth on their heads, painted with sundry colours, but most of them go
bareheaded, having - Page 412
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Some Also Wear A Similar Cloth On Their Heads, Painted With Sundry Colours, But Most Of Them Go Bareheaded, Having Their Heads Clipped And Shorn In Sundry Ways, And Most Of Them Have Their Bodies Punctured Or Slashed In Various Figures Like A Leathern Jerkin.

The men and women go so much alike, that a woman is only to be known from a man by her breasts, which are mostly long and hanging down like the udder of a milch goat.

[Footnote 231: Sestro river, in the Complete Neptune of the Rev. James Stanier Clarke, chart. 2, is called Sesters, in lat. 5 deg. 30' N. long. 9 deg. 10' W. from Greenwich. The river St Vincent of the text does not appear in that chart, but nearly at the indicated distance to the E.S.E. is one named Sangwin. - E.]

Soon after coming to anchor on the 15th December, we went up the river in our skiff, carrying with us certain basons, _manels_, &c. for sale. We procured that day one hogshead and 100 pounds weight of grains,[232] and two elephants teeth, getting both at an easy rate. We sold the natives basons, _maneilios_, and _margarits_,[233] but basons were most in request, and for most of these we got thirty pounds of _grains_ in exchange for each, and gave for an elephants tooth of thirty pounds weight six basons. We went again up the river on the 16th, in the morning, taking some of every kind of merchandise along with us in our boat, and shewed them to the negroes, but they made light of every thing, even of the basons, manellios, and margarite which they had bought the day before; yet they would have given us some grains for our basons, but so very little that we did not that day get above 100 pounds weight, through their chief or captain, who would not suffer any one to sell but through his mediation and at his price.

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