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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



[chap. 



than America, but is considered to belong to tlie latter, for 

 which reason it was handed over along with the Alaska 

 Territory by Russia to the United States. The island is inha- 

 bited by a few Eskimo families, who have commercial relations 

 with their Chukch neighbours on the Russian side, and therefore 

 have adopted some words from their language. Their dress also 



TATTOOING PATTERNa, FROM ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, 



1, 2. Face-tattooing. 3. Arm-tattooing. 

 (After drawings by A. Stuxberg.) 



resembles that of the Chukches, with the exception that, want- 

 ing reindeer-skin, they use jjfs/js made of the skins of birds and 

 mannots. Like the Chukches and Eskimo they use overcoats 

 of pieces of seal-gut sewed together. On St. Lawrence Island 

 their dress is much ornamented, chiefly with tufts of feathers of 

 the sea-fowl that breed in innumerable flocks on the island. It 



