July, 

 1826. 



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into their habits than could be elicited from any CI ^ AP - 

 signs or intimations. 



The natives also offered to us for sale various other 

 articles of traffic, such as small wooden bowls and 

 cases, and little ivory figures, some of which were 

 not more than three inches in length, dressed in 

 clothes which were made with seams and edgings 

 precisely similar to those in use among the Esqui- 

 maux. 



The staves of the harpoons and spears were made 

 of pine or cypress, in all probability from drift wood, 

 which is very abundant upon the shores ; and yet 

 the circumstance of their having lumps. of the resin 

 in small bags favoured the supposition that they had 

 access to the living trees. They had also iron py- 

 rites, plumbago, and red ochre, with which the frame 

 of the baidar was coloured. 



The people themselves, in their persons as well 

 as in their manners and implements, possessed all 

 the characteristic features of the Esquimaux ; large 

 fat round faces, high cheek bones, small hazel eyes, 

 eyebrows slanting like the Chinese, and wide 

 mouths. They had the same fashion with their 

 hair as the natives of Schismareff Inlet, cutting it 

 close round the crown of the head, and thereby 

 leaving a bushy ring round the lower part of it. 

 Ophthalmia was very general with them, and obliged 

 some to wear either some kind of shade or specta- 

 cles, made of wood, with a wide slit for each eye 

 to look through. At Schismareff Inlet diseases of 

 this nature were, also, prevalent among those who 

 visited us. 



The salutation of our visiters was, as before, by a 

 contact of noses, and by smoothing our faces with 



