They have sufficiently regular features, and but for the color, may pass, generally speaking, for handsome women.
Some to heighten their charms, dye their black hair (cut short for the purpose) with quick lime, forming round the head a strip of pure white, which disfigures them monstrously.

Others among the young wear a more becoming garland of flowers.

For other traits, they are very lascivious, and far from observing a modest reserve, especially toward strangers.

In regard to articles of mere ornament, I was told that they were not the same in all the island.

I did not see them, either, clothed in their war dresses, or habits of ceremony.