2t§ VOYAGE FROM OKHOTZK 



The Konasges are well-built, robuft, and healthy 

 people, and have ufually a round vifage of a fwarthy 

 complexion, with generally black, feldom auburn hair, 

 which both men and women cut round about the head. 

 The wives of the principal perfonages diflinguifh them- 

 felves from others by combing the hair ftrait down all 

 round, cutting it clofe to the eye -brows and wearing a 

 fillet ; fome alfo wear artificial beards, and fome again, 

 inftead of wearing a neck-kerchief, cover their jbreafh 

 and moulders with punctures in the fkin. Men, wo- 

 men, and girls, bore a hole through the partition griftlc 

 of the noftrils ; all like wife pierce their ears and the 

 lower lip. Some of the males alfo punctuate their 

 neck, but not many, though all cut through the under 

 lip, in fuch manner that at firfr. fight one is inclined 

 to think they have a double mouth. In the hole bored 

 in the partition of the noftrils they flick a longifh bone ; 

 and whoever have pieces of ore or coral, hang them in 

 their ears, lips, and nofe ; which is held to be a great 

 diilinclion as well as a beautiful ornament. They ne- 

 Ter cut the beard; wear no fhirt, go barefoot, and 

 when at home are quite naked, except that before they 

 wear a little apron of fur ornamented with flowers and 



16 a groundling or loach. Karakalitza, torn. vi. p. 36, Sepia, the 

 ink-fidi. Nark, according to the ruffian lexicon, ialmo ; a fpecie9 

 of (airnon about three quarters of an arfhine in length, fmooth, 

 red like a falmon, has a very little head, fmall reddifli teeth, cse- 

 rulean on the fides, white tongue, on each fide five teeth, a broad 

 dark red fpofted back, the fides fllver colour, the belly white, the 

 tail fomewhat arched, with large round fcales which eafily come 

 oft". They come in vaft (heals in the risers of the Eaflern and the 

 Pei'jfhinfid«ui fe», 



grafs. 



