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We had now time to view them attentively; we thought them to be about the size and Colour of the New Hollanders, with short, Cropt Hair, and quite naked like them. I thought these of a lighter Colour; but that may be owing to a whitish Pigment with which we thought their bodies were painted, because some appeared darker than others.
Their Hair was black, lank, and cropt short, and neither wooly nor Frizled; nor did they want any of their Fore Teeth, as Dampier has mentioned those did he saw on the Western side of this Country. Some part of their Bodys had been painted with red, and one of them had his upper lip and breast painted with Streakes of white, which he called Carbanda.
"Teach me, kind Hymen, teach, for thou Must be my only tutor now, Teach me some innocent employ, That shall the hateful thought destroy, That I this whole long night must pass In exile from my love's embrace. For had he, if he truly lov'd, But once the pangs of absence prov'd, He'd cropt thy wings, and, in their stead, Have painted thee with heels of lead.
William Dhône is dressed in a green coat without collar or cape, after the fashion of those puritanic times, with the head in a close cropt wig, resembling the bishop's peruke of the present day. The countenance is youthful and well-looking, very unlike the expression of foreboding melancholy.
He wore his beard cut in the fashion of the Second Empire, with a Louis Napoleonic mustache, imperial, and chin tuft; his neat head was cropt close; and there was something Gallic in its effect and something remotely military: he had blue eyes, really less severe than he meant, though be frowned a good deal, and managed them with glances of a staccato quickness, as if challenging a potential disagreement with his opinions.
Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half-forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct, in an old house of business, long since gone to decay, doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self-same college a votary of the desk a notched and cropt scrivener one that sucks his sustenance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill.
Their hair is almost universally black, thick, and Strong; this the Women wear short Cropt Round their Ears.
He is much marked with shot in his right thigh. The shot entered on the outside, halfway between the hip and knee joints. 'Brought to jail, John. Left ear cropt. 'Taken up, a negro man. Is very much scarred about the face and body, and has the left ear bit off. 'Ran away, a black girl, named Mary. Has a scar on her cheek, and the end of one of her toes cut off.
It is the condition of your creation: death is a part of yourselves: you flie from yourselves. The being you enjoy is equally shared betweene life and death. The first day of your birth doth as wel addresse you to die, as to live. Her. Sw. ckor. The first houre, that to men Gave life, strait, cropt it then. As we are borne we die; the end Doth of th' originall depend.
"'Will you swap hosses, old broad cloth then? said the other, 'because if you will, here's at you. "Steve took a squint at pony, to see whether that cat would jump or no, but the cropt ears, the stump of a tail, the rakish look of the horse, didn't jist altogether convene to the taste or the sanctified habits of the preacher.
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