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pronounce what I had written. There might 

 have been about thirty-five altogether ; and, as 

 far as I could make out, they had never seen 

 " Kabloonds" before. They had a cast of 

 countenance superior to that of such of their 

 nation as I had hitherto seen, indicating less 

 of low cunning than is generally stamped on 

 their features ; though, in most other respects, 

 sufficiently resembling them. The men were 

 of the average stature, well knit, and athletic. 

 They were not tattooed, neither did their vanity 

 incommode them with the lip and nose orna- 

 ments of those farther west ; but, had they 

 been disciples of the ancient fathers, who con- 

 sidered "the practice of shaving as a lie against 

 our own faces," they could not have nurtured a 

 more luxuriant growth of beard, or cultivated 

 more flowing mustachoes. In the former they 

 yielded the palm only to that of Master George 

 Killingworth, "which was not only thick, broad, 

 and yellow-coloured, but in length five feet and 

 two inches of assize."* 



The women were much tattooed about the 

 face and the middle and fourth fingers. The 

 only lady whose portrait was sketched was so 

 flattered at being selected for the distinction, 

 that in her fear lest I should not sufficiently see 



* Barrow's Chron. Hist, of Voyages, c. Hakluyt. 



