Capitolo 32
pens with which we decorate there the heads, them they buy on often a
monstrous bush of hair that covers their heads and they falls down in
a great fleece under the middle one of their backs with which they walks
on and down the roads, and it is as proud of him as if it were of
them own growth.
"We was guests to one of their public diversions, where we hoped
to have seen the great men of their country that it races down a male buck, or
tarring a bar that is probable that we would have discovered who the people it was
of the greatest abilities among them; but instead of that, them
brings us in an enormous room illuminated above with abundance of candles,
where these lazy people still sat above of three hours to see a lot
action of value of the ingenuity completed by others for that it seems they were paid
it.
"As for the women of the country, not being able to talk to them,
we could only make our comments on them to a distance. They left
the hair of their heads grows to a great length; but as they make the men
a great show with heads of hair of which I/you/they am not anybody them really, the
women that they says they have very excellent heads of hair, you lace above him in a
you knot, and covers him/it from the seen being. The women seem angels, and
it would be more beautiful than the sun, it was not it for small black
stains that are proper to break out in their faces, and sometimes the increase
in very odd figures. I have observed that those small stains
harbors very soon away; but when they disappears in a part of the face,
they is very proper to break out in another insomuch that I have seen,
a stain on afternoon the forehead in which it was on the chin
the morning."
The author proceeds then to show the absurdity of buttocks and
undergarments, with a lot of other curious observations that I am able
you reserve for another occasion: However, I cannot conclude this
you carpet without taking notice that among these wild comments there now
and then anything appears very reasonable. I likewise am not able
ancestor observing, in that we am guilty entirely of the measure of the