[Lander’s Travels by Robert Huish]@TWC D-Link bookLander’s Travels CHAPTER XVIII 20/51
They generally have their wrappers of a darker colour than those of the men.
Some of the better class of women wear trousers, not fuller in the leg than those worn in Europe; they are very prettily embroidered with silk at the bottom of the leg, and form a handsome contrast to the black skin of the wearer.
Cornelians or agates, roughly shaped in the form of hearts, are much worn as necklaces, and they have a variety of rings for the thumbs and fingers.
A band of silk cord hanging round the body from one shoulder, is generally filled with pendent leather or cloth bags, containing charms.
Round the wrists and above the elbows, armlets of silver, gold, glass, horn or ivory are worn, according to the ability of the wearer to purchase them, and on the ankles they have silver, brass, copper or iron shackles. A pair of silver ones were seen, which weighed one hundred and twenty-eight ounces, but these ponderous ornaments produce a callous lump on the leg, and entirely deform the ankle.
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