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inches and three quarters high ; he was very quiet and industrious, 

 and exchanged a great many articles with us honestly. His wife's 

 name was Allenachriu, about his own age, they had a boy named 

 Illiklaptuain and a girl called Beaktakhilla, the former six and 

 the latter seven and a half years old. We met them afterwards in 

 Padliak, in possession of plenty of fish, with which they supplied 

 ns; and the lady politely convoyed us several miles on our way 

 home. We did not see them during the last two years. 



As the rest of the natives have nothing remarkab'e or peculiar 

 to them, I shall only mention a few of their names, &c. 



Aunai, an old woman, sixty years of age, five feet three inches 

 and a quarter high. — Auatiu, an old woman, sixty-four years of 

 age, four feet ten inches and seven-eighths high. — Strowok, an old 

 woman, fifty-five years of age, five feet two inches and a half 

 high. — Ugluta, an old woman, fifty years of age, five feet high. — 

 Sheppung, a child, five years of age. — Karaksachiu, a cliild, six 

 years of age. — Nangiak, a woman, forty years of age, four feet 

 nine inches and a half high. 



The above will be sufficient to show that the Boothians are 

 generally below the middle size. The first party we met with 

 consisted of ninety-nine souls, viz., thirty-three men, twenty-five 

 of whom had wives ; twelve old men and women, and twenty-nine 

 children. We afterwards met with about sixty more, so that the 

 country is but thinly peopled, the whole population amounting to 

 no more than a hundred and sixty souls. Upon the whole, in the 

 unqualified state of nature in which they were found, they were the 

 happiest of human beings, on whom Providence has kindly and 

 bountifully bestowed every necessary gift, if not every blessing. 



