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quently not without many peculiarities. At eternal war 

 with the tribes from which these mountainous ascents 

 separate them, their long isolation has either developed 

 differences of customs, language, and looks, or they have 

 preserved ancient forms and appearances with greater purity 

 than the roving, marauding bands on either side of them. 

 Certainly they have a more thoroughbred look than have 

 any other tribe of American indigenes with which I am 

 personally acquainted, excepting the Zunians. 



When I say a thoroughbred look, I fear I shall hardly 

 be understood except by showing what I mean by its 

 reverse. If a reader who is an artist will station himself 

 for half-an-hour on London Bridge, and for that time 

 attentively regard the several individuals of the passing 

 crowd ; and then, turning to one side, attempt to produce 

 a form and face embodying and showing forth the general 

 impression or image they have created in his mind, he will 

 find that, instead of a general impression, he has a chaos of 

 conflicting ones. He has seen some few handsome faces, 

 many plain, and examples of every variety of ugliness 

 have passed before him ; but a prevailing type he has not 

 seen. 



He has seen every variety of nose, from the long hooked 

 to the short snub, bottle-noses, snipe-noses; eyes, varying 

 from the large blue Norse eye, or oriental dark one, to 

 watery, fishy eyes, pigs' eyes, eyes like burnt holes in a 

 blanket; mouths and chins as various; foreheads, from 

 the hydrocephalic to the monkey's ; some finely-formed 

 and well-balanced figures, but many and various dispro- 

 portions and contortions, only hidden by clothing from the 



