on the ground; and the children lie down, having their
legs bound together under them, in order to make them
learn to fit upon their hams.
Although no fire is ever made in thefe caves, they
are generally fo warm, that both fexes fit naked.
Thefe people obey the calls of nature openly, and without
efteeming it indecent. They wafh themfelves firft
with their own urine, and afterwards with water. In
winter they go always bare-footed; and when they
want to warm themfelves, efpecially before they go to
fleep, they fet fire to dry grafs and walk over it. Their
habitations being almoft dark, they ufe particularly in
winter a fort of large lamps, made by hollowing out a
Hone, into which they put a rufh-wick and burn train
oil. A ftone fo hollowed is called Tfaaduck. The natives
* are whites with black hair ; they have flat faces,
and are of a good ftature. The men fhave with a fharp
ftone or knife, the circumference and top of the head,
and let the hair which remains hang from the crown t.
The women cut their hair in a ftreight line over the forehead
; behind they let it grow to a confiderable length,
* Von geficht find fie platt undweifs durchgaengig mit fchwarzen
haaren.
The original in this pafiage is-fomewhat obfcure. Die maenner
fcheeren mit einem Scharfen Stein oder mefier den Umkreifs des haar-
iopfs und die platte, und lafien die haare urn die krone des kopfs run-
(dum ueberhangen.
and
and tie it in a bunch. Some of the men wear their
beards ; others fhave or pull them out by the roots.
They mark various figures on their faces, the backs
of their hands, and lower parts of their arms, by pricking
them firft with a needle, and then rubbing the parts
with a fort of black clay. They make three incifions in
the under-lip ; they place in the middle one a flat bone,
or a fmall coloured ftone; and in each of the fide-
ones they fix a long pointed j piece of - bone, which
bends and reaches almoft to the ears. They likewife
make a hole through the griftle of the nofe, into which
they put a fmall piece of bone in fuch a manner as
to keep the noftrils extended., They alfo pierce holes
in their ears, and wear in them what little ornaments
they can procure.
Their drefs confifts of a cap and a fur-coat, which
reaches down to the knee. Some of them wear common
caps of a party coloured bird-fkin, upon which
they leave part of the wings and tail. On the fore-part
of their hunting and fiffiing caps they place a fmall
board like a fcreen, adorned with the jaw-bones of fea-
bears, and ornamented with glafs beads, which they receive
in barter from the Ruffians. At their feftivals and
dancing parties they ufe amuch more fhowy fortof caps.
Their fur-coats are made like Ihirts, being clofe behind,
and before, and are put on over the head. The.
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