South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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The Talapoins Are Strangely Apparelled, Having A Brown _Cambaline_ Or Thin Cloth Next Their Body, Above Which Is Another Of Yellow Many Times Doubled Or Folded Over Their Shoulders, And These Two Are Girded Round Them By A Broad Girdle.

They have a skin of leather hung by a string round their necks, on which they sit, bare headed and bare footed, as they wear no shoes.

Their right arms are all bare, and they carry a large _sombrero_ or umbrella over their heads, which protects them from the sun in summer, and from the rain in winter.

Before taking their orders, the talapoins go to school till, twenty years old or more, and then go before a head talapoin appointed for the purpose, called a _rowli_, who is the most learned of the order, who examines them many times, whether they will leave their friends, foregoing the company of women, and assume the habit of a talapoin. If any one be content, he is made to ride through the streets on a horse, very richly apparelled, accompanied by many drums and trumpets, to shew that he is about to quit the riches and vanity of the world. A few days afterwards, he is again carried through the streets, on a thing like a horse litter, called _serion_, mounted on the shoulders of ten or twelve men, and dressed in the habit of a talapoin, preceded by drums and instruments of music, and accompanied by many talapoins and all his friends.

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