hair in thick greasy Que[u]es behind the head[.]

The women still retain the mode of dress worn by their sex in Noah's Ark. The only difference between a Nascapee and a Montagner woman's dress is that the former dresses in leather and the latter in cloth with the addition of a shawl tied with an elegant knot to conceal from the roguish eye their tempting lovely Bosoms. The less prudish Matron however while suckling her hungry child at once gratifies and satiates such curiosity by a peep of her nauceous Bags. Their Caps, in the shape of a Priest's mitre, are made of red & blue second cloth the seams & Rim of which are ornamented with Beads and Ribbans fancifully put on. Their Robes, made of red or blue cloth and with detached sleeves, hang from the shoulder to the ancle and is wrapt tight round the waist by a belt of the same cloth but different colour so that their shapes are plainly seen and the protuberance, behind seems more than a Counterpoise to those already described before, a circumstance to which may be attributed the constant

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