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CHAPTER X. 



THE ESKIMOS. 



THE Eskimos, the most northerly inhabitants of the 

 globe, are in many respects a strange and interesting 

 pie. In appearance they are short and well-built, 

 ith fat, round faces, usually almost entirely devoid of 

 hair ; the eyebrows and eyelashes are so scanty as to be 

 scarcely discernible, giving to their brown, oily faces a 

 singularly bare and homely appearance. Their hair, 

 like that of the Indians, is black and straight. By the 

 women it is worn plaited, and twisted up into three 

 knots, one at either side of the head and one at the back. 

 The men wear theirs short, and well down over their 

 forehead, for protection from the cold in winter and 

 from the sun in summer. 



While the Eskimos as a rule are short and homely in 

 appearance, still I have met with some very handsome, 

 stalwart men, quite up to the standard height of Cana- 

 dians, and a few pretty, charming women. Most of 

 them have bright soft brown eyes, which of themselves 

 are features of beauty ; but they serve these savages a 

 better and more useful purpose, furnishing marvellous 

 powers of vision and enabling their owners to see objects 

 clearly at great distances. The eyes of the Anglo-Saxon, 



