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could never find out. There was fome reafon to think that 
they are. 
Thefe people are rather low of ftature, but plump and 
well fhaped; with rather fhort necks; fwarthy chubby 
faces; black eyes; fmall beards ; and long, ftraight, black 
hair; which the men wear loofe behind, and cut before, 
but the women tie up in a bunch. 
Their drefs has been occafionally mentioned. Both fexes 
wear the fame in fafhion; the only difference is in the ma¬ 
terials. The women’s frock is made of feal fkin; and that 
of the men, of the fkins of birds ; both reaching below the 
knee. This is the whole drefs of the women. But, over 
the frock, the men wear another made of gut, which re¬ 
fills water; and has a hood to it, which draws over the head. 
Some of them wear boots ; and all of them have a kind of 
oval fnouted cap, made of wood, with a rim to admit the 
head. Thefe caps are dyed with green and other colours; 
and round the upper part of the rim, are ftuck the long 
briftles of fome lea-animal, on which are ftrung glafs 
beads ; and on the front is a fmall image or two made of 
bone. 
They make ufe of no paint; but the women pundlure 
their faces flightly; and both men and women bore the 
under-lip, to which they fix pieces of bone. But it is as un¬ 
common, at Oonalalhka, to fee a man with this ornament, 
as to fee a woman without it. Some fix beads to the upper 
lip, under the noftrils ; and all of them hang ornaments in 
their ears. 
Their food confifts of filh, fea-animals, birds, roots, and 
berries ; and even of fea-weed. They dry large quantities 
of filh in fummer; which they lay up in fmall huts for 
winter ufe ; and, probably, they preferve roots and berries 
for 
1778. 
October. 
