20) THE KAROK. 
eyes bright, moderately well sized, and freely opened straight across the 
face; nose thick-walled and broad, straight as the Grecian, nares ovoid, root 
not so depressed as in the Sacramento Valley; forehead low and wide, nearly 
on a perpendicular line with the chin; color ranging from hazel or buff- 
hazel to old bronze, and almost to black. Many of the young squaws are 
notable for the fullness of the eyes and the breadth of sclerotic exposed. 
The women age early, but even at forty or fifty their faces are furrowed 
with comparatively fine lines, and they very seldom display those odious 
hanging wrinkles and that simian aspect seen on the Sacramento. All Cali- 
fornia Indians emit an odor peculiar to themselves, as that of the Chinese 
or that of the negroes is to them. 
With their smooth, hazel skins, nearly oval faces, full and brilliant eyes, 
some of the young women—barring the tattooed chins—have a piquant and 
splendid beauty. In those large, voluptuous eyes, so broadly rimmed with 
white, there is something dangerous, a very unmistakable suggestion of pos- . 
sible diablerie; and in truth there are plenty of them every whit as subtle 
in the arts of coquetry as their white sisters. It is little wonder that so 
many pioneers, including four county officers and the only editor in Klamath 
County, have taken them to wives. 
The young people of both sexes dress in the American fashion, and I 
have seen plenty of them appareled in quite correct elegance—the young 
men in passable broadcloth, spotless shirt-fronts, and neat black cravats; 
the girls, in chaste, pretty, small-figured stuffs, with sacques, collars, rib- 
boned hats, ete. Some of the young bloods array their Dulcineas for the 
dance with lavish adornments, hanging on their dresses $30, $40, $50 worth 
of dimes, quarters, and half-dollars arranged in strings. 
The primitive dress of the men is simply a buckskin girdle about the 
loins; of the women, a chemise of the same material, or of braided grass, 
reaching from the breast to the knees. The hair is worn in two club-queues, 
which are pulled forward over the shoulders. The squaws tattoo in blue 
three narrow fern-leaves perpendicularly on the chin, one falling from each 
corner of the mouth and one in the middle. For this purpose they are said 
to employ soot gathered from a stone, and mingled with the juice of a cer- 
tain plant. In their native state both sexes bathe the entire person every 
