NORTHERN OCEAN. 
life, could not be exceeded by the moft illuftri- 
ous perfonage now on record; and to add to his 
other good qualities, he was the only Indian that 
Lever faw, except one, who was not guilty of 
backbiting and flandering his neighbours. 
In ftature, Matonabbee was above the common 
fize, being nearly fix feet hight; and, except that 
his neck was rather (though not much) too fhort, 
he was one of the fineft and beft proportioned 
men that I ever faw. In complexion he was 
dark, like the other Northern Indians, but his 
face was not disfigured by that ridiculous cuftom 
of marking the cheeks with three or four black 
lines. His features were ragular and agreeable, 
and yet fo ftrongly marked and expreflive, that 
they formed a completeindex of his mind; which, 
as he never intended to deceive or diffemble, 
he never wifhed to conceal. In converfation he was 
eafy, lively, and agreeable, but exceedingly mo- 
deft ; and at table, the noblenefs and elegance of 
his manners might have been admired by the firft 
perfonages in the world; for to the vivacity ofa 
Frenchman, 
der while | was there, were part ofthofe prefents. There were alfoa few 
Jong beads found among thofe people, but quite different from any that 
the Hudfon’s Bay Company had ever fent to the Bay; fo that the only 
probable way they could have come by them, muft have been by an inter. 
courfe with {ome of their tribe, who had dealings with the Danes in Da- 
vis’s Straits. Jt is very probable, however, they might have pafled 
through many hands before they reached this remote place. Had they 
had an immediste intercourfe with the Efquimaux in Davis’s Straits, it is 
natural to fuppofe that iron would not have been fo fcarce among them 
as it feemed to be; indeed the diftance is too great to admit of it, 
jl have feentwo Northern Indians who meafured fix feet three inches; 
and one, fix feet four inches, 
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