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The women of Secotam are of reasonable good proportion. In their going they carry their heads dangling down, and [are wrapped] in a deer skin very excellently well dressed, hanging down from their navel unto the mids of their thighs, which also covereth their hinder parts. The rest of their bodies are all bare. The fore part of their hair is cut short, the rest is not over long, thin and soft, and falling down about their shoulders. They wear a wrath [circlet] about their heads. Their foreheads, cheeks, chins, arms and legs are pounced [tattooed]. About their necks they wear a chain, either pricked or painted. They have small eyes, plain and flat noses, narrow foreheads, and broad mouths. For the most part they hang at their ears chains of long pearls, and of some smoothed bones. […]