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1824. skin, the only one in his possession, for my 

 August, acceptance ; on my refusing this also, he again 

 warmly repeated his thanks for the knives. 



The women were slierhtlv tattooed on the 

 face in small dots, probably from their having 

 no needles of sufficient fineness to draw a 

 sooted thread under the skin in lines, as is the 

 usual Esquimaux custom. 



The hands were not marked, and their hair 

 was twisted into a short club, which hung 

 over each temple. I purchased two little bone 

 ornaments, which had been used as pendants 

 to these locks, and on one of them were about 

 a dozen small irregularly-shaperl pieces of lead, 

 strung alternately with square -cut pieces of the 

 claw of some bird. The women wore no 

 breeches, but had little thigh wrappers, and 

 very high boots, which, with their very ragged 

 jackets, resembled those of the natives of the 

 Savage Islands. 



The costume of the men was also some- 

 what of the same kind as of the above people, 

 but all had much shorter breeches, and their 

 knees were more exposed. As they wore 

 gloves, the reversed skin of the dovekie, 

 merely dried, without farther preparation, and 

 the long stiffened neck part pointed forward in 

 such a manner as to be always in the way. 



