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OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE. 



KacTiali as a separate people, both in language (which no white man 

 has ever been able to repeat), in appearance, and in disposition. 

 They are true Athabascans, or exactly like the meat-eating Indians 

 of our great North American interior. An average man here is an 

 Indian of medium height, say five feet seven or nine inches, well 

 built and symmetrical, lithe and sinewy. The cold glint of his 

 small, jet-black eyes is not relieved by any expression of good humor 



A Kenaitze Chief: Cook's Inlet, 



in his taciturn features and physical bearing. His nose will pre- 

 sent, as a rule, the full aquiline or Julius Csesar outline. Their 

 skin is darker than that of the Innuit, though now and then a 

 comely young person will show perceptible blood-mantlings to the 

 cheeks. The mouth is large — lips rather full ; beardless faces are 

 the rule. Their women are much better-looking than either the 

 Siwash squaws of the Sitkan region, or the females of the Aleutian 

 and Innuit i-aces. Their hair is Avoru in clubbed bunches and 



