57-i THE SAMOIEDES. 



somewhat taller than the Lapps, and their colour is more of a tawny. 

 The marked features of their countenance recall the Hindu type. 

 The forehead is high, the hair black, the nose long, the mouth well- 

 formed ; but the sunken eye, veiled by a heavy lid, expresses a cniel 

 and perfidious nature. The manners of the Samoiedes are brutal. 

 In character they are wily, fierce, and cunning. They arc shepherds. 



A SAMOIEDE FAMII.V. 



hunters, traders, and, when opportunity serves, robbers. They clothe 

 themselves in reindeer-skins, like the other Hyperboreans of the old 

 continent. They shave off their hair, except a tolerably large tuft 

 which they allow to flourish on the top of the head, and they pluck 

 out the beard as fast as it grows. The women adorn themselves with 

 a belt of gilded copper, and with a profusion of ornaments in glass 



