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Mekolka, his son, unmarried. 
Ustynia, 
Anka, daughters. 
Tierrtso or Zornka, 
Katrina, his daughter-in-law. 
Niab-kutni, her little girl. 
Wanka, her little boy. 
A baby. 
I have given you all the dvamatis persone, just as 
they were introduced, or rather explained to us by Uano, 
except the three last who did not come out of the skins, 
This was pretty well for a circular room about fifteen 
feet across. 
While the goose was cooking we had time to consider 
our entertainers more carefully. There was a touch— 
but not more—of Mongol in all their faces, more marked 
in the women than in the men. They had high cheek- 
bones and a tendency to slit-like eyes, and their eye- 
brows were beautifully arched. 
Uano had a short grizzled moustache and _ beard, 
and a world of shrewdness in his eyes, which were 
redeemed from cunning by a kindly twinkle. His wife 
Ustynia, whose old face was as yellow as his, was 
not ugly. Just a homely, kind-looking old woman who 
would have made a respectable cottager on any English 
estate. 
Katrina was almost pretty; indeed when first she 
married she must have been a pretty girl, Her eyes 
were dark, she had a pretty colour in her cheeks, and 
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