ABSTRACT
Although the Chinas commonly are ill-favoured, having small eyes, and their faces and noses flat, and are beardless, notwithstanding there are some who have very good faces, and well proportioned, with great eyes, their beards well set, and their noses well shapen. Their ordinary apparel is long gowns with long plaits after good ancient use; they curve over the breast and are tied down the side, and they all in general have very long sleeves to their gowns. On their head they wear a high round cap made of very thin little wands covered over with woven black silk, very well made. They wear their stockings whole-footed, which are very well made and stitched; and they wear boots or shoes, as the curiosity or ability of every one is, either of silk or of leather. They wear long hair like women, which they have very well brushed and combed, and they comb it many times a day.
