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[QUOTE]Originally posted by capra: [QB] Thanks for finding that Lioness. Yes, it is a sort of summary rather than a quote. The descriptions of people with long black hair are in the Pacific. The paragraph beginning "Questa terra del Verzin..." is the one that talks about the houses containing 100 families and people living to 140. (This is in Brazil.) Pigafetta says that the men in large canoes "look as black, naked, and shorn when they are rowing as those from the Stygian marshes." After discussing the origin story of cannibalism he says: "These men paint themselves marvellously with fire, all over the face and body, in various ways, the women also; they are shorn and have no beards, because they pluck them.... They are not wholly black, but olive-coloured; they carry their private parts uncovered; their bodies are hairless, and both men and women always go naked." Pigafetta uses the same word (olivastri, olive-coloured) to describe the skin colour of people from the Marianas and the Philippines, and the bark of the clove-tree. He does not mention the skin colour of the Patagonian giants, as far as I can tell, only talks about how they paint their faces. The first one they meet is said to have only a little hair, which is coloured white. Later on he describes Patagonians who have their "hair cut with a shaven pate in the manner of a friar, but longer..." I cannot find anything about short woolly hair. Maybe someone can come up with a different translation. They sound like regular South Americans. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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