The Loajima was here about twenty-five yards wide, but very much deeper than where I had crossed before on the shoulders of Mashauana.

The last rain of this season had fallen on the 28th, and had suddenly been followed by a great decrease of the temperature.

The people in these parts seemed more slender in form, and their color a lighter olive, than any we had hitherto met.

The mode of dressing the great masses of woolly hair which lay upon their shoulders, together with their general features, again reminded me of the ancient Egyptians.
Several were seen with the upward inclination of the outer angles of the eye, but this was not general.

A few of the ladies adopt a curious custom of attaching the hair to a hoop which encircles the head, giving it somewhat the appearance of the glory round the head of the Virgin (wood-cut No.