Those who Make a Trade of Beauty know how to value it, and when they come on board bring with them their Pimps or Procurers under the denomination of relations to receive and secure the Price and these ladys are as well qualified to Act their part as any of their profession in other Countrys and are no ways bashful in making their Demands — but if a Man Makes a friend that Friend can never have any Connection with any female of the Family except His friends Wife, evry other becoming His relations which they hold an abomination to have any Conexion with, nor can they be perswaded to alter that Custom on any Consideration, detesting as much as we do to have their own relations as wives. The Weomen of rank are Most remarkable for their licentious practices and Many of them have a Number of Favourites, in which they pride themselves, tho many of the lower Class are what may honestly be Calld Virtuous, never admitting a Second to share in their favours.

The Famous Queen Pbooraya being herself an Areeuoy, it is not to be wondered at that evry licentious practice was carried on by her followers and Attendants, her Court being filld with such as preferd the Rites of Venus to those of Mars and as she saw that they were also more agreeable to her Visitors (the general Case with Sailors after a long Voyage) they were no doubt practised and carried to the utmost verge of their lattitude, it being in all Countrys the Case that those in power always lead the fashions, let them be good or evil.

However the ladys who act these parts are not to be taken as a standard for the Whole no more then the Nymphs of the Thames or Syrens of Spithead are to be taken as Samples of our own fair Country Weomen.

Their Ceremonies have also been misunderstood by Former Voyagers — The Flys being Numerous they are forced to use fly flaps and when they have none they use branches of the first tree, and with these they are ever ready to supply evry stranger, especially if any Food is at hand; as they cannot bear to see a Fly toutch what they Eat, and have a number of Hands always employd to drive them away with these branches. The other branches used in Ceremonies are the Rou avva and are Commissions borne by substitutes for Chiefs and evry person bearing one of them is treated in the same Manner as the Chief would

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