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Our general caused some calevers to be shot off at them, whereby, some being hurt, they might hereafter stand in more fear of us. This was all the answer for this time we could have of our men, or of our general's letter.
Their crafty dealing at these three several times being thus manifest unto us, may plainly show their disposition in other things to be correspondent.
We judged that they used these stratagems thereby to have caught some of us for the delivering of the man, woman, and child, whom we had taken. They are men of a large corporature, and good proportion; their colour is not much unlike the sunburnt countryman, who laboureth daily in sun for his living. They wear their hair something long, and cut before either with stone or knife, very disorderly.
Their women wear their hair long, knit up with two loops, showing forth on either side of their faces, and the rest faltered upon a knot.
Also, some of their women tint their faces proportionally, as chin, cheeks, and forehead and the wrists of their hands, whereupon they lay a colour which continueth dark azurine. They eat their meat all raw, both flesh, fish, and fowl, or something parboiled with blood, and a little water, which they drink.
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