The inhabitants throughout this country exhibit as great a variety of taste as appears on the surface of society among ourselves.

Many of the men are dandies; their shoulders are always wet with the oil dropping from their lubricated hair, and every thing about them is ornamented in one way or another.

Some thrum a musical instrument the livelong day, and, when they wake at night, proceed at once to their musical performance.

Many of these musicians are too poor to have iron keys to their instrument, but make them of bamboo, and persevere, though no one hears the music but themselves.
Others try to appear warlike by never going out of their huts except with a load of bows and arrows, or a gun ornamented with a strip of hide for every animal they have shot; and others never go any where without a canary in a cage.

Ladies may be seen carefully tending little lap-dogs, which are intended to be eaten.