TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS. Q75 
or rather frocks, of the three young men, were made 
of white dog or wolf skin, having the fur-side in, or 
next their body : they came down as far as the hip- 
joint; and their lower border was straight all round, 
with the exception of a small slit in the front : 
they all had hoods to them, which served for a 
head-covering. ‘Their breeches were also made of 
the same kind of skin, but having the fur-side 
out ; and their boots, which came up to the knee, 
were likewise made of the same material, and 
had the fur-side in. The old man’s dress was 
entirely of seal-skin, but in its shape it differed 
in no respect from the others: it had this 
peculiarity, however, that his frock had the fur- 
side of the skin out. Their.canoes were made of 
seal-skin, and of the same shape as those of the 
Greenlanders, but rather larger, and not near so 
neat, probably owing to the latter having better 
instruments to execute their work with. ‘The 
frames of their canoes were made chiefly of fir- 
wood, as were also their paddles, which were 
about nine feet and a half long, double-headed, 
and the rim of the blades very neatly edged with 
bone. Their spears were from four to five feet long, 
and were made of narwhal’s horns: most of them 
were headed with sharp-pointed pieces of bone ; 
but one of them had a lance-pointed piece of iron 
fitted on to the end of his spear ; and the old man 
had a piece of wood, about the same length as their 
spears, near one end of which there was a sharp 
iron hook, made apparently of a nail. They had 
a scimetar-shaped knife each, made of the tusks 
of the walrus, or sea-horse; and on each canoe 
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