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brafs, or copper: eyes fmall, black, languifhing: mouth round: lips large and 
thick: hair of the head thick, ftrong, black, long, and lank ; that on the eye- 
brows very thin: neck fhort and thick: limbs fmall and ill-made: fkin a pallid 
white, where it can be viewed free from dirt or paint. “The women are nearly of 
the fame form and fize as the men, but undiftinguifhable by any feminine foft- 
nefs. Many of the old men have great beards, and even muftachios; but the 
younger people in general feem to have plucked out the hair, except a little on the 
end of the chin. 
Their drefs confifts of mantles and cloaks, well manufactured among themfelves,, 
and either woollen, matting, or fome material correfpondent to hemp. Over 
their other cloaths the men frequently throw the fkin of fome wild beaft, 
which ferves as a great cloak. The head is covered with a cap made of matting, 
in form of a truncated cone, or in that of a flower-vafe, with the top adorned 
with a pointed or round knob, or with a bunch of leathern taffels. Their whole- 
bodies are incrufted with paint or dirt, and they are a moft fquallid offenfive race; 
filent, phlegmatic, and uncommonly lazy ; eafily provoked to violent anger, and 
as foon appeafed. The men are totally deftitute of fhame: the women behave 
with the utmoft modefty, and even bafhfulnefs*. I fhall not repeat what has 
been faid of the infinite variety of hideous mafques this nation poflefles, and feems 
particularly fond of, was not the ingenious Editor of the Voyage at a lofs for their 
intent, whether for religious or for mafquerading purpofes+. Mr. Bartram } 
proves that thefe mafques extend to the eaftern fide of the continent, and that 
their ufe was fportive ; for he was plagued part of a night with the buffoonery, 
of a fellow, who came into his lodgings while he was on his travels, and, 
after playing a thoufand antic tricks, vanifhed in a manner as if he meant to be 
taken for a hobgoblin. The Offiaks have exactly the fame cuftom §. 
Thefe people have made fome progrefs in the imitative arts; for, befides their 
fkill in the fculpture of their mafques, which they cut into the fhape of the heads 
of various fpecies of beafts and birds, they are capable of painting with tolerable 
exaétnefs : accordingly, they often reprefent on their caps the whole progrefs of the 
Whale-fifhery. I have feena {mall bow made of bone, which was brought by the 
navigators from this fide of North America, on which was engraven, very intel- 
ligibly, every obje& of the chace. I have caufed this fingular bow to be engraven, 
and in the fame plate, that moft terrific Tomahawk of Nootka Sound, called the 
Taaweefh, or Tfufkeeah. The offenfive part is a ftone projecting out of the mouth 
of a fculpture in wood, refembling a human face, in which are ftuck human and 
other teeth: long locks of fcalped hair are placed on feveral parts of the head, 
* Voyage, ii. 339. t+ Same, 307. t Travels, 43. - § Ruffian Nations, i. 193. 
waving 
