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23 wear pieces of blue cloth for stockings, some like our soldiers’ splatter-dashes. They reach high- er than their knees, but not lower than their an- cles. They esteem them easy to run in. Breeches they never wcar, but instead thereof two picces of linen, one beforc and anothcr behind. The better sort have shirts of the finest linen they can gct, and to these some wear ruffles ; but thcsc they never put on till they have painted thcm of various colours, which they get from the pecone root and bark of trees, and never pull them on to wash, but wear them till they fall to pieces. They are very proud, and take great delight in wearing trinkets, such as silver plates, round their wrists and necks, with several strings of wampum, which is made of cotton, interwoven with peb- bles, cockleshells, &c. down to their brcasts, and from their ears and noses they have rings or beads which hand dangling an inch or two. The men have no beards, to prevent which they use cer- tain instruments and tricks as soon it begins to grow. The hair of their heads is managed dif- fercntly ; some pluck out and destroy all, except a lock hanging from the crown of the head, which they interwcave with wampum and feathers of various colours. The womcn wear it very long, twisted down their backs with beads, feathers, and wampum, and on their heads most of them wear little coronets of brass or coppar ; round