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and placing the mouth at the opposite end of the trough, to 

 receive the liquid as it flows. 



In order to limit their observation of distant objects, and 

 to protect themselves from snow-blindness, occasioned by the 

 reflection of the sun's rays from off" the ice-flakes of snow, they 

 wear an eye-shade of wood or ivory, or of both combined. 

 On the inside it is hollowed to receive the bridge of the nose, 

 on which it rests in front, and to give free play to the eyelids, 

 while on the outside it is convex, and longitudinally and very 

 narrowly divided for the purposes of vision. Two strings are 

 attached to it to confine it in its place. 



And in order to protect themselves from the Russian traders, 

 the natives of Prince William Sound and Schism areff^ Inlet, 

 wear underneath their dress a jacket or coat of mail* made of 

 thin laths, boimd together with sinews, which make it quite 

 flexible, though so close as not to admit an arrow or dart. 

 It only covers the trunk of the body, and has been compared 

 by Captain Cook to the stays of civilized life. According to 

 Sauer, it has a flap before, reaching down their thighs, but 

 so made as to rise or fall, and permit their sitting in their 

 oomiaks : a similar flap hangs on the breast, which may be 

 raised as high as the eyes. Straps fasten this armour on the 

 shoulders, and strings tie it round the body on one side. At 

 Schismarefi^ Inlet, instead of wood, their coat of mail is made 

 of eider drake skin.f 



They have an ingenious contrivance for detaching fleas 

 from the back, or such parts of the body as the hands cannot 

 reach. This is a rib of a seal, having a bunch of the whitest 

 hair of the deer attached to one end, and on thus rubbing the 

 places which require it, the little animals stick to it: from their 

 colour they are easily detected. 



Almost all the uncivilized races have some notion of draw- 

 ing, generally a representation of themselves, of the animals 

 of the chase, and the implements used in their capture. 

 Captain Eeechy has described a picture drawn on one of their 

 implements of the chase, by one of the natives of Kotzebue's 



* Cook, Sauer. t Becchy. 



