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and in great profusion in both sexes. The men wear 

 long flowing beards and moustaches. Tlieir entire body 

 is invariably covered with hair, and very frequently to 

 an extraordinary degree. The children are also hairy 

 little things. Few reach the age of fifty ; probably the 

 hard, exposed life they lead is the chief cause of this low 

 standard. The women 

 appear to pass from girls 

 into old women almost 

 without any intermediate 

 state ; marrying very 

 young, and their life 

 afterwards being a very 

 hard one, soon brings 

 about premature old age. 

 The women wear their 

 great mass of hair flung 

 back over their head and 

 tied behind ; ornamenta- 

 tion is not neglected 

 when they manage to get a few pieces of coloured 

 glass, blue cloth, or beads. The glass is stuck into 

 a band, and on great occasions worn round the head, 

 while with the cloth they trim the collars and cuffs 

 of their deer-skin robes. Great massive ear-rings 



