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2 a AIMEE 
CHAPTER X. 
THE HSKIM OS: 
THE Eskimos, the most northerly inhabitants of the 
globe, are in many respects a strange and interesting 
people. In appearance they are short and well-built, 
with fat, round faces, usually almost entirely devoid of 
hair ; the eyebrows and eyelashes are so scanty as to be 
searcely discernible, giving to their brown, oily faces a 
singularly bare and homely appearance. Their hair, 
like that of the Indians, is black and straight. By the 
women it is worn plaited, and twisted up into three 
knots, one at either side of the head and one at the back. 
The men wear theirs short, and well down over their 
forehead, for protection from the cold in winter and 
from the sun in summer. 
While the Eskimos as a rule are short and homely in 
appearance, still I have met with some very handsome, 
_ stalwart men, quite up to the standard height of Cana- 
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dians, and a few pretty, charming women. Most of! 
them have bright soft brown eyes, which of themselves 
are features of beauty; but they serve these savages a 
better and more useful purpose, furnishing marvellous 
powers of vision and enabling their owners to see objects 
clearly at great distances. The eyes of the Anglo-Saxon, 
