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wiry, stout muscular development being rare, fatness 

 still more so. Men and women do the same work, and 

 seem equally capable of undergoing exposure and toil. 

 The colour of their skin is a copper hue with an olive 

 tint ; this with almost constant uniformity, both in the 

 north and south. Occasionally a darker-skinned man 

 appeared, but never a woman. The children vary very 

 little from the parents ; their skin had perhaps a cleaner 



appearance. Their 

 features are regular 

 and good, and in 

 expression decidedly 

 pleasing; they have 

 neither the high 

 .~3 cheek-bone nor ob- 

 lique upper eyelid 

 peculiar to the Mon- 

 golian family. Very 

 many of their faces were certainly intelligent. Their 

 temples are flat ; foreheads broad, square, and high ; 

 arch of the head flat; entire head round and well- 

 shaped; their lips are full, but not particularly so, 

 eyes very dark, eyebrows straight, and parallel to the 

 axis of the orbits. Their most peculiar characteristic is 

 their hair, which is very coarse, black, long, and straight, 



