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One of the Chief Ladies of Secota

The women of Secota are of reasonable good proportion. In their going they carry their hands dangling down, and wear deer skin very excellently well dressed handing down from their navel unto the middle 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 wreath about their heads. Their foreheads, cheeks, chins, arms and legs are pounced. 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 pears, and of some smooth bones. Yet their nails are not long, as the women of Florida. They are also delighted with walking into the fields, and beside the rivers, to see the hunting of deer and catching of fish.

Monday, 15-May-95 14:17:42 PDT