248 AVOYAGETOTHE 



^ "xiL ^' ^^^ ^^^ Wefternmoft land in fight Weft half South, fix- 



< ' teen or feventeen leagues diftant. 



1787. & 



July. 



ay3i« ^g ^g g^j.g ^Q^y talcittg our leave of Prince William's 

 Sound, though the publication of captain Cook's and 

 other voyages hath obviated the neceffity of a copious de- 

 fcription of the natives, their manners, cuftoms, &c. and 

 the produce of their country, yet a fev/ particulars may be 

 feleded from what hath hitherto come under general ob- 

 fervation, which may afford the reader fatisfa<3:ion ; as 

 they are the refult of very clofe attention and minute re- 

 marks on their behaviour and general condudt. 



These people are for the moft part fhort in ftature, and 

 Tquare-made men ; their faces, men and women, are in 

 general flat and round, with high cheek-bones and flattifh 

 nofes; their teeth are very good and white; eyes dark, 

 quick of fight; their fmell very good, and which they 

 quicken, by fmelling at the fnake-root parched. As to 

 their complexions, they are generally lighter than the 

 Southern Indians, and fome of their women I have feen with 

 rofy cheeks; their hair is black and ftraight, and they are 

 fond of having it long: but on the death of a friend they 

 cut it fhort, to denote them to be in mourning; nor have 

 I ever obferved that they have any other way to mark their 

 forrow and concern for their relations. The men have ge- 

 nerally bad ill-fhaped legs, which I attributed to their 

 fitting in one conftant polition in their canoes. They 

 feem poffeffed of as great a fhare of pride and vanity as 

 Europeans; for they often paint the face and hands, their 

 ears and nofes bored, and the underlip flit. In the hole in 

 the nofe they hang an ornament (as they deem it) made of 

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