As I had two measuring rods with me, we went round and measured those that appeared to be tallest among them.  One of these was six feet six inches high, several more were six feet five, and six feet six inches; but the stature of the greater part of them was from five feet ten to six feet.  Their complexion is a dark copper-colour, like that of the Indians in North America; their hair is straight, and nearly as harsh as hog’s bristles:  It is tied back with a cotton string, but neither sex wears any head-dress.  They are well-made, robust, and bony; but their hands and feet are remarkably small.  They are clothed with the skins of the guanico, sewed together into pieces about six feet long and five wide:  These are wrapped round the body, and fastened with a girdle, with the hairy side inwards; some of them had also what the Spaniards have called a puncho, a square piece of cloth made of the downy hair of the guanico, through which a hole being cut for the head, the rest hangs round them about as low as the knee.  The guanico is an, animal that in size, make, and colour, resembles a deer, but it has a hump on its back, and no horns.  These people wear also a kind of drawers, which they pull up very tight, and buskins, which reach from the mid-leg to the instep before, and behind are brought under the heel; the rest of the foot is without any covering.  We observed that some of the men, had a circle painted round the left eye, and that others were painted on their arms, and on different parts of the face; the eye-lids of all the young women were painted black.  They talked much, and some of them called out Ca-pi-ta-ne; but when they were spoken to in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Dutch, they made no reply.  Of their own language we could distinguish only one word, which was chevow:  We supposed it to be a salutation, as they always pronounced it when they shook hands with us, and when, by signs, they asked us to give them any thing.  When they were spoken to in English, they repeated the words after us as plainly as we could do; and they soon got by heart the words, “Englishmen come on shore.”  Every one had a missile weapon of a singular kind, tucked into the girdle.  It consisted of two round stones, covered with leather, each weighing about a pound, which were fastened to the two ends of a string about eight feet long.  This is used as a sling, one stone being kept in the hand, and the other whirled round the head till it is supposed to have acquired sufficient force, and then discharged at the object.  They are so expert in the management of this double-headed shot, that they will hit a mark, not bigger than a shilling, with both the stones, at the distance of fifteen yards; it is not their custom, however, to strike either the guanico or the ostrich with them in the chase, but they discharge them so that the cord comes against the legs of the ostrich, or two of the legs of the guanico, and is twisted round them by the force of the swing of the balls, so that the animal being unable to run, becomes an easy prey to the hunter.