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A VOYAGE TO 



>77S- not mifunclerfland the Rufllans, tlicy had been obHgcd to 

 make fome fevere examples *, before they could bring the 

 iflandcrs into any order. If there were feverities inflicted at 

 lirft, the befl apology for them is, that they have produced 

 the happieft confequences ; and, at prefent, the greatelt 

 harmony fubfifts between the two nations. The natives have 

 their own Chiefs in each ifland, and feem to enjoy liberty 

 and property unmolefled. But whether or no they are tribu- 

 taries to the Ruffians, we could never find out. There was 

 fome reafon to think that they are. 



Thefe people are rather low of ftature, but plump and well 

 fliapedj with rather fhort necks; fwarthy chubby faces; 

 black eyes ; fmall beards; and long, ftraight, black hair; 

 which the men wear loofe behind, and cut before, but the 

 •women tie up in a bunch. 



Their drefs has been occafionally mentioned. Both fexes 

 wear the fame in fafliion ; the only dilTerence is in the mate- 

 rials. The women s frock is made of feal fkin ; and that of 

 the men, of the fkins of birds ; both reaching below the 

 knee. This is the whole drefs of the women. But, over 

 the frock, the men wear another made of gut, which re- 

 fifts water ; and has a hood to it, which draws over the head. 

 Some of them wear boots ; and all of them have a kind of 

 oval fnouted cap, made of wood, with a rim to admit the 

 liead. Thefc caps are dyed with green and other colours ; 

 and round the upper part of the rim, are rtuck the long 

 briftles of fome fea-animal, on which are ftrung glafs 

 beads; and on the front is a fmall image or two made of 

 bone. 



• See the particulars of hoftilitles between the Ruffians and natives, in Coxe, as 

 tited above. 



They 



