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occafion to be apprehenfive of any danger and to 1 
exprefs their friendly intentions, and the confidence 
they had of ours j and probably likewife, from our 
having taken pretty much knowledge of their child- 
ren, by dreffing fome of them with beads and rib- 
bons, when we were on fhore before. We meafured 
the heights of many of thefe people ; they were in 
general all from fix feet, to fix feet five inches, 
although there were fome who came to fix feet feven 
inches, but none above that. They are well pro- 
portioned, their features large and pretty regular, with 
pretty clear completions ; and they would be much 
more fo, if they did not paint, and expofe themfelves 
to the inclemency of the weather, any more than 
we do in Europe. I am fure there are many in 
Europe as dark coloured as they are ; they have long 
black hair (but I think not fo very black as the ge- 
nerality of the Indians), which many of them had 
tied up with a kind of woven huff, of about the 
breadth of a garter, and feemed to have been made 
from feme kind of wool. They feem to have but 
little hair on their bodies, and very fmall breafl, little 
beard, for I believe they pull it out by the roots, 
for many of them had little tufts left growing at each 
corner of the mouth, on the upper lips, and one in 
the hollow part of the chin, in the middle of the 
under lip ; many had the hair of the eye-brows 
plucked off, and fome had their faces painted. They 
are cloathed in fkins, which they wear with the fur 
part next to the body j it hangs from their fhouldera 
half-way down their legs, with a girdle tied about 
their waifl, which makes their cloathing very decent, 
and they feem to be modefl both in their actions and 
behaviour. 
