64 NATIVES OF GREENLAND. 



hands are remarkably fine, small, and neat. The same 

 remark applies with regard to their feet. 



The dress of both sexes is nearly alike, the women being 

 distinguished only by their jacket terminating in a triangular 

 piece, before and behind, reaching nearly to the knees. 

 Nothing about the persons of the Uskee-mes is more re- 

 markable than their hair. It hangs from their poll, long, 

 black, coarse and lank, exactly like the hairy parts of the 

 whalebone. The women tie it in a bunch upon the top of 

 the head, which takes away much of the unsightliness of such 

 an object. In Plate V., Fig. 1, which is a good Hkeness 

 of an Uskee woman, this custom is exhibited. 



Having stated so much regarding the person of the 

 Greenlander, we shall proceed to trace him in his emigra- 

 tion. 



That they are of Tartar origin, may be very fairly as- 

 sumed. Their general cast of feature, their retired and 

 cautious habits, and above all their unconquerable 

 disposition to change their place of abode, are evident 

 proofs of this assumption being correct. In this view, 

 then, some of them may be considered as having moved 

 Avestward, and colonized Lapland, where they are found 

 in boats of the same construction as those of the Green- 

 lander and Hudson's Bay Esquimeaux, and devoted to the 

 very same pursuits. Others proceeding northward and 

 eastward, peopled the Samoeid country, and whether by 



