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Show e et e rnsiitns N A THAN 45105 KIRGHE o e P et e e e e e e A LT X An Old Woman The Wowen in 1he King~ donr-of -Cotny XVIAT onng Woman 2 They {aw alfo firange Women at Barantolz, which came thither out of th adjacent Kingdo of Coin, a young Woman and an old one in this Habit as th XV and XVI Figures exprefs. | Now all the Noble Women braid or curl al Pref their Hair in the manner of Hair-laces or fmall bands, and wreath it behind them on their forchead they wear a red filet befet with pearls, on the top of thei heads they bear a filver Crown interlaced wich Turchoifes and Coral Having left the Kingdom of Laffz or Barantola, in a months Voyage they cam Themofthigh OVEr the moft high Mountain Langur, which we have defcribed a little before roewr. unto the Kingdom Necbal, where they found nothing wanting unto hamane fu ftenance cxcept faith in Chrift; for they are all involved in the thick Cloud o Heathenifh blindnefs. The chief Cities of this Kingdom are Cuthi and Nefti. I isa Cuftom 1n this Nation that if you drink unto a Woman ver wh tha - per that other Men o . Women pour 1n the Liquor Cha or the Wine 'three times for them, ‘and in th time of drinking affix threc picces of Butter unto the brim of the Pot or Cup thofe: that pledge them or drink after them taking it off and Ricking it to thei forehead. There is alfo another moft crucl Cuftom obferved in thefe Kingdoms by which delpairing of the recovery of their fick, and efteeming them near t death, they carry them forth, and caft them into'deep ditches in the Fields are full of dead bodies, and there being expofed to ‘the injury of time the fer them to perifh without any pity or commiferation; and after that the dead they Jeave them to be devoured by ravenous Birds, or Fowl b Wolves Dogs and fuch like Creatures whilft in the mea tha fufar an while the .k_‘_ ----- per{wade themf{elves that it is no mean Monument of a glorious death, to obtain-er have their Tomb within the bellies of living Animals. The Women o thefe Regions are {o deformed and ugly, that they appear more fit for Devil than Men ; for out of a religious conceit they never wafh themfelves with water but with a certain moft ftinking Oyl which befides that it giveth a moft intolera ble {cent, it doth fo much bedawh and render them filthy, that they feem no to be Wom: n bt Hagsand Wicches 23 Th whe |