. Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda ... Corwin (Ship); Plants; Birds; Fishes. style of personal ornamentation adopted l)y the women of Saint I«iT\Tence Island. whom it is related that a sailor seeing one of them for the first time, and observing the slit in the lower lip through which the native thrust his tongue, thought be had discovered a man with two mouths. The use of the labret, like many of the attempts at primitive ornamentation, is very old, it having been traced by Dall along the American Coast ft'om the lower ji
. Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda ... Corwin (Ship); Plants; Birds; Fishes. style of personal ornamentation adopted l)y the women of Saint I«iT\Tence Island. whom it is related that a sailor seeing one of them for the first time, and observing the slit in the lower lip through which the native thrust his tongue, thought be had discovered a man with two mouths. The use of the labret, like many of the attempts at primitive ornamentation, is very old, it having been traced by Dall along the American Coast ft'om the lower jiart of Chili to Alaska. Persons fond of tracing vestiges of savage ornamentation amid intellectual advancement and aesthetic sensibility far in advance of the primitive man, may observe in the wearers of bangles and ear-rings the same tendency existing in a differentiated form. DIVEESIONS. I doubt whether Shakespeare's dictum in regard to music holds good when applied to the Eskimo, for they have but little music in their souls, and among no people is there such a notice- able absence of " treason, stratagem, and ; A rude drum aud a monotonous chant consisting only of the fundamental note aud minor third, are the only things in the way of music among the more remote settlements of which I have any knowledge. Mrs. Micawber's singing has been described as the table beer of acoustics. Eskimo singing is something more. The beer has become flat by the addition of ice. One of our engineers, who is quite a fiddler, exi)eriinented on his instrument with a view to see what effect music would have on the "savage breast," but his best efforts at rendering Madame Augot and the Grande Duchesse were wasted before an unsj'ui- pathetic audience, who showed as little appreciation of his performance as some peoi)le do when listening to Wagner's " Music of the ; Where they have come in contact with civilization, their musical taste is more developed. At
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