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Writing Type: Diary

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His comment son the women of Guasco, Chile.

Keywords: Women, beauty, Guasco, Chile

Publisher: Edward Moxon, London

Archive: John Rylands Library

Location Details: Captain Basil Hall, Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the years 1820,1821, 1822, part 2, Edward Moxon, Dover Street, London, 1840.

Text: p.3 Chapter XXVIII Beauty of the women [in Guasco, Chile]
The men at Guasco are a fine race, well made and generally handsome ; with graceful, and rather gentle manners. Most of the women we saw, both in figure and in countenance, were handsome ; indeed, we scarcely met one, out of many hundreds, who had not something pleasing either in look or person ; and what is rare in hot countries, this remark extends to elderly women. Although considerably fairer than any South Americans we had yet seen, the natives of Guasco were all characterised by the dark eye and long black hair of their Spanish ancestors.




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