OON 
OODEADARGAM, a town of Hindooftan, in My- 
i {fs taken by the Britith 
troops in 1800; 31 miles S.E. of Bangalore. ; 
OODIMALLYCOTTA, a town of Hindooftan, in 
Coimbetore ; 17 miles E.S.E. of Animally, 
OODNAGUR, a town of Bengal; 22 miles N. of 
Kifhenagur. 
OOFARA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 
120 miles W. o co. 
OOGEIN, or Ooszin. See OvucEIN. ; 
OOISCONSIN, in Geography, a river of North America, 
which runs into the Miffifippi; N. lat.42°32'. W. long 
© of 
2° 3!, 
: OOKATA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo; 
28 miles S. of Funai. 
OOKI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo; 54 
miles N. of Nangafaki. 
OOLANDOOR, a town of Hindeoftan, in the Car- 
natic; 20 miles W.S.W. of Trivadi. 
OOLPAR, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; 10 miles 
W. of Surat. 
of N.W. by ! his is one of the * Fox 
and fuppofed to be the largeft of them, and to contain 
feveral thoufand inhabitants. (See Fox Jffands.) The 
hefe iflanders are tents, like thofe in Kamt- 
{chatka, with an entrance by a hole in the middle of the 
roof. In one of thefe feveral families refide, including 
thirty or forty perfons: they keep themfelves warm by 
means of whale fat, burnt in fhells and placed between their 
legs: the women fit apart from the men; and fix or feven 
of thefe tents, called «* Yourts,’? compofe a village, of which 
there are fixteen in Oonalafhka. As their habitations are 
dark, they perpetually ufe, in winter, a fort of large lamp, 
hollowed in a ftone, into which they put a rufh-wick, and 
burn train eil. The inhabitants are white, with black hair, 
: the men fhave 
. The 
the forehead, 
length, in a the men wear their beards, 
and others fhave or pull them out by the roots. They mark 
their faces, the backs of their hands, and lower parts of 
their arms, with various figures, by pricking them firft with 
a kind of needle, and afterwards rubbing the parts with 
black clay. In the lower lip they make three incifions ; 
OON 
eir CoO: nd worn | 
drefs of the men is made of bird-fcins, that. of th 
men of fea-otters and fea-bears, neatly fewed with 
and ornamented with ftripes of fea-otter fkins and leather 
fringes. have alfo upp rments made of the in- 
teftines of the largeft fea-calves and fea-lions. Their veflels 
dars,”’ with oars on bot 
thirty or forty people: the 
a double paddle, and contain one or two perfons : 
Their provifions they keep undried without falt in the 
1 ey gather berries of various forts, and the 
es 0 
rows wild at Kamtichatka. 
ceremonies are unk t ea man takes as man 
wives as he can maintain, generally four. ‘Their weapons 
confift of bows, arrows, and darts; for defence they ufe 
ows, a 
wooden fhields, called ‘“‘kayaki.”” Although favages, thefe 
the reft they p 
kettles, halibets, and Capt. King vifited 
this ifland in the year 17978: the inhabitants feldom came 
to the fhips, and did not remain above arter of.an 
hour at a time, bartering a few articles with the feamen, 
ut appearing to avoid much intercourfe. ey are faid 
: My : 
to have behaved with's degree of politenefs uncommon with 
191° 20! to 192”. a 
ONATO a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 
120 miles N. of Jedo 
OONDAPATTY, a town of Bengal, in Baglana ; 5 5 
miles S. of Noaffuch. 
I2 OONELLA, 
