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involved so that most of the surface of the skin was covered by a freeze of tigers, squares, & Greek borders.  The [[symbol: female]] never appeared to be thus ornamented.  Some of the women of certain tribes wore black dresses with short skirts & leggins of black & red with black horse-hair garters or bands above their calves.  Their hats were of the wide brimmed conical yellow type of the Chinese but were made of plated bamboo & had a short cone for the peak.  Many women were seen with cardinal or bright green skirts, & some with maroon, the material appeared to be silk.  Various sorts of vegetables were offered for sale, turnips, seeds, rice, sugar-cane, yams, water chestnuts, bananas, oranges, lemons, dried persimmons etc.  I saw several baskets of land-snails, a food I had never