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CHAP. VII. 
A 'll RIV A L OF THE R E 1 NDE E R T & C H DESCI-I E NS W T TII THE 
3 N TE IlPItET.E R DAU H K IN. —- b E SCR! PTI O N O F THIS ; 
PEOPLE.-ENTERPR1ZE OF CAPTAIN BILLINGS, AND 
HIS DEPARTURE WITH THE TSCHUKSCHENS FOR THE 
RIVER KOLYMA. 
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I. OWARDS evening the interpreter Dau'.kin came with 
seventy-two large baidars full of Reindeer Tschnkschens, and 
their Troi Imlerat Kirenjew. We soon gained the confidence 
and good-vvil! of our new guests by civility and suitable pre¬ 
sents. They hauled their baidars on shore by the side of our 
vessel, and converted them into dwellings in the usual manner, 
visiting us regularly every day, and observing every thong with 
looks of extreme curiosity and admiration. But nothing could 
equal their astonishment at witnessing the effect of our guns, 
which we bred with balls into the sea for their entertainment. 
In the mean time they carried on a brisk trade with us; bartering 
their fox-skins, walrus’ teeth, arms and utensils,, for tobacco, 
enamel, and beads. Both the men and women of tins nation 
are mostly of the middle stature; there are, however, some 
taller individuals among them. They are a’l stout built, having 
a healthy appearance, with an open physiognomy, not so savage 
as is Usually found among rude nations. In their features they 
resemble thp Americans of Cape Rodney, cutting their hair in 
a similar manner, and wearing similar clothes : however, the 
men do not, like them, adorn their lips with pendant bones. The 
women, on the contrary, puncture several parts of their body 
in various forms, particularly two semicircles on both cheeks, 
winch unite in cross directions. They bind up their hair in two 
queues, like the female Russians, but do not twist them in a tuft 
on the crown, or cover them, but let them hang loosely behind. 
The male and female dress is very similar, consisting of vests and 
trowsers ; but the upper vest'of the female is somewhat shorter, 
and the under one is fastened to the long trowsers. In the dry 
season of, summer, they weaf alaschas or short boots of row- 
or tanned rein-deer-hides, but in damp and rainy days 
they put on long torbasas, or wide and long boots Without 
heels, made of tanned sea-dog’s skin. 
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