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BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



three fourteen are either so old or so weak that they cannot work and 

 earn money and obtain civilized food, and so are obliged to live more 

 according to their old ways. 



I have only been here about one year and a half, but I desire to say 

 that I have been assisted very materially by the present agent, Mr. E. 

 Eells, who has been here four and a half years, and by Mr. J. Palmer, 

 a native Indian, who both reads and writes English, and has been in- 

 terpreter here for about six years. Dr. E. H. Lansdale, the resident 

 physician for the past two years, has written paragraphs A and B in 

 Part I, B, 0, and D in section 14, Part III, and a part of B in section 15 

 of Part III. 



PAET I.— MAN. 



A. — Physical nature. 



Measurement of the body ivitli reference to each other and to a standard. — 

 Eleven men were weighed and measured, with their clothes, and the 

 following table is the average, both before and after deducting what we 

 think to be right on account of clothes, hair, &c., and also the extreme 

 limits under each head: — 



Color of hair. — Black. 



Color of eyes. — Black. 



Blushing. — The same as white people, though not so sensitive. 



Muscular strength. — Quite inferior to that of white men. 



Characteristics of speed. — ISTot equal to that of white men. 



Characteristics of swimming. — Superior to that of white men. 



Characteristics of climbing. — Inferior to that of white men. 



Senses. — They are a little inferior to those of white men. 



Growth and decay. — Their growth is attained early in life, and their 

 decay also begins early. 



Child-bearing. — Very easy. 



Reproductive potver. — Much less than with whites. 



Sterility. — This prevails to a large extent. They cause it early in life 

 by various kinds of abuse. 



