particularly, owing, perhaps in
some measure, to their working har-
der, and being more among the grease;
some of their shirts do not appear
to have been washed, ever, and about
their shoulders they become very black
and greasy, from their greasy heads;
their hair, I have observed to be the
cloth, to wipe their greasy fingers on
while they were eating their bread and
oil. Thus for want of a change
of clothes, living in their dirt,
they become very lousy, which they
try to extricate themselves from, by pul-
ling off their shifts, turning them in-
side, out, and hunting the vermin
with as much composure, and seeming-
ly, good grace, as a mother amongst us
would, in combing one of her chil-
dren; this part of their dirt, has