362 A. &. Bickmore on the Ainos of Saghalien. 
Their huts were across the stream a short distance to the 
south, and we remained so short a time I was unable to visit 
them 
Whittincham, * who landed north of Cape Lamanon, and 
but a few miles from this place, thus describes the houses 
he saw there: “‘As we came near the shore, four dark men, 
with very long black hair flying in the wind, and clothed in 
seal-skin jackets, kilts and boots, waved their arms and hands, 
warning us to another landing-place, toward which they wad- 
dled with a peculiar clumsy gait. With many demonstrations 
of respect they led the way to their huts of rough logs, covere 
and the interstices filled with birch bark and dry leaves ; ; they 
were low on the ground, and could only be entered by stoop- 
ing on the hands and knees. The larger eee were used as 
sigan for their fishing apparatus. One of the men was 
magnificent savage, tall, lithe, straight and strong, with 
hair, beard and moustaches never desecrated by the touch of 
the scissors ; with a high broad brow, dark eyes, straight nose 
and oval face, he was a far nobler creature than the Red In- 
dian, who I had always fancied was the pride of wild men, 
His fellows were less manly in their bearing and smaller ; and 
as far as dirt, mal-odor, and want of light permitted me to see, 
_ the women were ugly and little.” The oval form of the face, 
which is here noticed, is very correct; but he is mistaken, 
however, about the stature of the women , which, in those i 
aw, ges nearly equal to that of the men. I measured one 
man and found his height to be 5 feet 3% inches, meaty two 
aches | taller than thcse I measured in Yesso, The distance 
round his chest was 3 feet 2 inches ; stretch of arms across 
the chest, 5 feet 83 inches ; length of arm, 1 foot 2 inches ; 
and oF fore-arm, } foot t 61 inches ; distance round _ arm at 
Hg 0 he gin pint the eae in Eastern Siberia 
1806. 
