waift

They are large, (Irong, and favage people, in general taller than the inhabitants of the fea-fliores; they go moilly naked, both men and women, and only wear a thick bandage round their waift, which is called chiaaca, and is made of the milky bark of a tree, called by them facka (being the ficamorus alba).

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

From the waift, upwards, they are generally naked; and it feemed to be a cuflom to anoint thefe parts every morning.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

They wrap round the waift a piece of cloth that reaches half way down the thighs, and fometimes in the cool of the evening they appeared with loofe pieces of fine cloth thrown over their fhoulders, like the women of Otaheite.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

Women of a low rank, and girls, l»ve clothes wrapped round them from the waift to the knees.

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The men wear broad-brimmed hats, blick jackets, fuU-glated breeches of the facme colour, bofe at the knee, and tied round the waift.

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His drcfs was alight blue robe, and a girdle of rofe-colour furrounded his waift.

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Into this die Greenlander thrufis himfelf up to the waift, and fattens the ikia

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In fituations of any ceremony I appeared in my full drefs, which con - liiled in a long white robe girt round the waift in the manner of the Marrattas; and with a turban and fandals, in the Moorim fafhion.

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'FaL I would it were otherwife; i'would my meam were greater, and my waift flenderer.

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