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Excerpt from Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Vol. 4: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others
The King keepeth his residence in the bottome of the Bay, and is called by the Moores, Borea, or Captaine, Caran, caran, caran. Hee hath other pettie Kings under him, whereof one, called Captaine Pinto, a wretched old man, dwelleth at a Towne within the second Cove: and on the other side the Bay, Captaine Boloone. Boreas Dominions stretch fortic leagues into the land, he hath tribute of Cotton-cloath, Elephants teeth and gold: he hath power to sell his people for slaves, (which he profi'ered unto us) and some of them are by Portug all Priests and Jesuits made Christians, and have a Chappell, wherein are written in a table, such dayes as they are to observe holy. The King, with some about him, are decently cloathed 1n Jackets and Breeches, and some with hats, but the common sort go naked, save that with a Cotten girdle about their waste, they cover their privities; the women cover theirs with a Cotton-cloath, tacked about their middles and hanging to the knees, wrapped round about them, the children goe starke naked. They are all, both men and women, raced and pinked on all parts of their bodies very curiously, having their teeth also filed betwixt, and made very sharpe. They pull ofi' all the haire owmg on their eye-lids. Their beards short, crispe, ilacke, and the haire of their heads they cut into allyes and crosse pathes others weare it jagged 1n tufts, others in other foolish formes; but the women shave all close to the ?esh.
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