52 IDEAS OF BEAUTY. 



by the violent stretching as thin as a packthread, 

 and of a dark blue colour. 



In running, the lip flaps up and down so as 

 to knock sometimes against the chin and some 

 times against the nose. Upon the continent, the 

 kaluga is worn still larger ; and the female who 

 can cover her whole face with her under-lip 

 passes for the most perfect beauty. Men and 

 women pierce the gristle of the nose, and stick 

 quills, iron rings, and all kinds of ornaments, 

 through it. In their ears, which are also pierced 

 in many places, they wear strings of bones, 

 muscle-shells, and beads. 



It would be difficult to convey an adequate 

 idea of the hideousness of these people when 

 their costume is thus complete ; but the lips of 

 the women, held out like a trough, and always 

 filled with saliva stained with tobacco-juice, of 

 which they are immoderately fond, is the most 

 abominably revolting part of the spectacle. 



The Kalushes have no fixed residence, but 

 hover round the coast in their large canoes, which 

 they call the women s, carrying all their pro 

 perty with them. When they fix upon any 

 spot for their temporary establishment, they 



