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SIMILAR FEA- 
TURES. 
Ci) U7 S) Ry) Oe Mr Ss 
own *, Thefe habits they ufe in the chace, to circumvent the animals of the 
field. But would not ignorance or fuperftition afcribe to a fupernatural meta- 
morphofis thefe temporary expedients to deceive the brute creation? 
In their marches the Kamt/chatkans never went abreaft, but followed one another 
in the fame track +. The fame cuftom is exactly obferved by the Americans. 
‘The Tungufi, the moft numerous nation refident in Sibiria, prick their faces 
with fmall punétures, with a needle, in various fhapes ; then rub into them char- 
coal, fo that the marks become indelible {. This cuftom is ftill obferved in fe- 
veral parts of America. The Indians on the back of Hud/on’s bay, to this day 
perform the operation exaétly in the fame manner, and punéture the fkin into 
various figures; as the natives of New Zealand do at prefent, and as the antient 
Britons did with the herb Gla/um, or Woad §; and the Virginrans, on the firft dif- 
covery of that country by the Engli/h ||. 
The Tungufi ufe canoes made of birch-bark, diftended over ribs of wood, and 
nicely fewed together q. The Canadian, and many other American nations, ufe 
no other fort of boats. The paddles of the Tumgu/fi are broad at each end ; thofe 
of the people near Coo4’s river, and of Oonala/cha, are of the fame form. 
In burying of the dead, many of the American nations place the corpfe at full 
length, after preparing it according to their cuftoms; others place it in a fitting 
pofture, and lay by it the mott valuable cloathing, wampum, and other matters. 
The Tartars did the fame: and both people agree in covering the whole with earth, 
fo as to form a tumulus, barrow, or carnedd **. 
Some of the American nations hang their dead in trees. Certain of the Tunguft 
obferve a fimilar cuftom. 
I can draw fome analogy from drefs: conveniency in that article muft have been 
confulted on both continents, and originally the materials muft have been the 
fame, the fkins of birds and beafts. It is fingular, that the conic bonnet of the 
Chinefe fhould be found among the people of Nostka. I cannot give into the no— 
tion, that the Chinefe contributed to the population of the New World; but I can 
readily admit, that a fhipwreck might furnifh thofe Americans with a pattern for 
that part of the drefs. 
In refpect to the features and form of the human body, almoft every tribe found 
along the weftern coaft has fome fimilitude to the Zartar nations, and ftill retain. 
the little eyes, fmall nofes, high cheeks, and broad faces. They vary in fize, 
* Voyage, ii. 31%, 329.—A very curious head of a Wolf, fitted for this ufe, is preferved in the 
LEVERIAN Mufeum. + Hift. Kamtfch. 61. } Bell's Travels, o&. ed. i. 240. 
§ Herodian in Vita Severi, lib. iii. || De Bry, Virginia, tab. iii, 111. q Vbrande 
Ides, in Harris's Coll. ii. 929. ** Compare Colden, i. 173 Lafitau, i. 416; and Archeologia, 
ii. 222, tab. xiv. 
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