Some old women, with grey hair and wrinkled faces who piously kissed our hands when they met us, were among the smallest.

Now and then some young woman or girl was attractive, but usually their faces were suspicious, sad, and old before their time.

The skin was a rich brown; the eyebrows heavily haired, often meeting above the nose; the hair grew low upon the forehead, and in young women the forehead itself was covered with a fine downy black growth.

The nose was flat, broad, and depressed at the roots, while its tip was flat and wide.

The eyes were dark brown and the hair was black and coarse.