In a province called Zambales, they wear the head shaved from the middle forward.  On the skull they have a huge lock of loose hair. [53] The women throughout this island wear small jackets [sayuelos] with sleeves of the same kinds of cloth and of all colors, called varos. [54] They wear no shifts, but certain white cotton garments which are wrapped about the waist and fall to the feet, while other dyed cloths are wrapped about the body, like kirtles, and are very graceful.  The principal women have crimson ones, and some of silk, while others are woven with gold, and adorned with fringe and other ornaments.  They wear many gold necklaces about the neck, calumbigas on the wrists, large earrings of wrought gold in the ears, and rings of gold and precious stones.  Their black hair is done up in a very graceful knot on the head.  Since the Spaniards came to the country many Indians do not wear bahaques, but wide drawers of the same cloths and materials, and hats on their heads.  The chiefs wear braids of wrought gold containing many designs, while many of them wear shoes.  The chief women also wear beautiful shoes, many of them having shoes of velvet adorned with gold, and white garments like petticoats.

Men and women, and especially the chief people, are very clean and neat in their persons and clothing, and of pleasing address and grace.  They dress their hair carefully, and regard it as being more ornamental when it is very black.  They wash it with water in which has been boiled the bark of a tree called gogo. [55] They anoint it with aljonjoli oil, prepared with musk, and other perfumes.  All are very careful of their teeth, which from a very early age they file and render even, with stones and iron. [56] They dye them a black color, which is lasting, and which preserves their teeth until they are very old, although it is ugly to look at. [57]

They quite generally bathe the entire body in the rivers and creeks, both young and old, without reflecting that it could at any time be injurious to them; [58] for in their baths do they find their best medicines.  When an infant is born, they immediately bathe it, and the mother likewise.  The women have needlework as their employment and occupation, and they are very clever at it, and at all kinds of sewing.  They weave cloth and spin cotton, and serve in the houses of their husbands and fathers.  They pound the rice for eating, [59] and prepare the other food.  They raise fowls and swine, and keep the houses, while the men are engaged in the labors of the field, and in their fishing, navigation, and trading.  They are not very chaste, either single or married women; while their husbands, fathers, or brothers are not very jealous or anxious about it.  Both men and women are so selfish and greedy that, if they are paid, they are easily won over.  When the husband finds his wife in adultery, he is smoothed and pacified without any trouble—­although, since they