C H A P . II.
Mode o f faluting and drefs o f tie Poles.— Account o f the fait-
mines o/Wielitika.— ‘Their extent and profit.— Journey to
Warfaw.
r p n E Poles feem a lively people,, and ufe much a ¿lion in
— ,— 11 their ordinary conversation. Their common mode of
faluteis to incline their heads, and to itrike their breaft with
one of their hands, while they ftretch the other towards the
ground; but when a common perfon meets a fuperior, he
bows his head almoft to the earth, waving at the fame time
his hand, with which he touches the bottom of the leg near
the heel of the perfon to whom he pays his obeifance. The
men of all ranks generally wear whifkers, and lhave their
heads, leaving only a circle of hair upon the crown. The
Summer drefs of the peafants confifts of nothing but a fhirt
and drawers of coarfe linen, without ihoes or ftockings, with
round caps or hats. The women of the lower clafs wear upon
their heads a wrapper of white linen, under which their hair
is braided, and hangs down in two plaits. I obferved feveral
of them with a long piece of white linen hanging round
the fide of their faces, and covering their bodies below their
knees: this lingular kind of veil makes them look as if
they were doing penance.
The drefs o f” the higher orders, both men and women,
is uncommonly elegant. That of the gentlemen is a
waiftcoat with lleeves, over which they wear an upper robe
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