This fashion appears to be most popular with the females, for their noses are the ugliest.

Their hair is jet black and thick, but coarse; the women and girls generally wear it plaited in two knots.

The colour of their skin is a copper-brown.

All the natives are tattooed, generally from the hips half down the legs, and frequently this mode of ornamenting themselves is extended to the hands, feet, or other parts of the body.

The designs resemble arabesques; they are regular and artistic in their composition, and executed with much taste.
That the population of this place should be so vigorous and well- formed is the more surprising, if we reflect on their depraved and immoral kind of life.