Moa 3 Sh ae 
kunch: the legs are very fhort, covered with fmooth whitifh hairs ; 
thofe which encircle the hoofs very long, and of a pure white: 
hoofs fhort, broad, and black: the falfe hoofs large in proportion : 
tail only three inches long, a mere ftump, covered with very long 
hairs, fo as to be undiftinguifhable to the fight. Of the tail, the 
Eskimaux of the north-weft fide of the bay make a cap of a moft hor- 
rible appearance; for the hairs fall all round their head, and cover 
their faces ; yet it is of fingular fervice in keeping off the Mufque- 
toes, which would otherwife be intolerable*. 
Space between the horns nine inches: the horns are placed exaétly 
on the fides of the head; are whitifh; thirteen inches and a half 
long ; eight inches and a half round at the bafe; of the fame fort of 
curvature with thofe of the Bull: the ears are three inches long, quite 
erect; fharp-pointed, but dilate much in the middle; are thickly 
lined with hair of a dufky color, marked with a {tripe of white. 
The color of the hair black, except on thefe parts :—from the bafe 
of one horn to that of the other, is a bed of white and light ruft-co- 
lored hair: the mane is dufky, tinged with red, which is continued in 
a narrow form to the middle of the back; on which is a large roundifh 
bed of pure white, and the hairs in that fpace fhorter than any of the 
reft, not exceeding three inches in length, and of a pale brown to- 
wards their roots. 
The hairs are of two kinds, the longeft meafure feventeen inches ; 
are very fine and glofly, and when examined appear quite flat: this 
is the black part, which cloaths moft part of the animal. 
The bed of hair between the horns, and that which runs along the 
top of the neck, is far finer and fofter than any human hair, and ap- 
pears quite round. The white bed is ftill finer, and approaches to 
the nature of wool. 
Beneath every part of the hair grows in great plenty, and often in 
flocks, an afh-colored wool, moft exquifitely fine, fuperior, I think, 
* Ellis’s voy. 232. 
Cc to 
Horns. 
EARS. 
Cotor.e 
Hair, 
Woor. 
