{73} Before entering they all laid aside their flowers, with which they again ornamented themselves at their departure.

Some of the women had black satin blouses on, and European bonnets of an exceedingly ancient date.

It would not be easy to find a more ugly sight than that of their plump, heavy heads and faces in these old- fashioned bonnets.
During the singing of the psalms there was some degree of attention, and many of the congregation joined in very becomingly; but while the clergyman was performing the service, I could not remark the slightest degree of devotion in any of them; the children played, joked, and ate, while the adults gossiped or slept; and although I was assured that many could read and even write, I saw only two old men who made any use of their Bibles.
The men are a remarkably strong and vigorous race, six feet being by no means an uncommon height amongst them.

The women, likewise, are very tall, but too muscular--they might even be termed unwieldy.
The features of the men are handsomer than those of the women.

They have beautiful teeth and fine dark eyes, but generally a large mouth, thick lips, and an ugly nose, the cartilage being slightly crushed when the child is born, so that the nose becomes flat and broad.