GBEENLAND. 



the Eskimos, the heat and the offensive smell may more 

 easily be imagined than described. The ablutions of the 

 men generally consist in moistening their fingers with 

 saliva, and rubbing the salt spray from their faces ; the 

 mothers use their tongues, like cats, to clean and polish 

 (Leir children. 



The men do not dress their hair in any particular 

 fashion, merely shortening it over the forehead, and 

 allowing it to hang down on the cheeks and neck ; the 

 women often wrap a handkerchief round their heads to 

 keep them warm, as the drawing up of the hair to the 

 crown leaves the greater part of the head uncovered. 



The shape of the Eskimo face is somewhat oval, the 

 greatest breadth being below the eye, at the cheek bones; 

 the forehead arches upward, ending narrowly ; the chin 

 is a blunt cone ; the nose is more or less depressed, broad 

 at the base, with somewhat thickened nostrils ; the lips 

 thickish, but the teeth generally very white and regular. 



Occasionally, among the young women, we saw 

 a good-natured, pretty face ; but the old women are 

 frightfully ugly. Their teeth drop out ; they discontinue 

 the use of the head-band, showing a bald place where 

 the hair has fallen out by being pulled against the grain ; 

 the face, deeply furrowed, assumes a very harsh expres- 

 sion ; and the legs are bowed by the constant use of the 

 " tailor posture " while sitting. The resemblance between 

 the sexes is further increased by the absence of beard and 

 monstache among the men, any stray evidence of either 

 being ruthlessly pulled out by means of a couple of sheila* 



