. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. PORTRAIT or AN WOMAN i'.n> lew before. They had a cast ol countenance superior to that of such of their nation as I had hitherto seen, indicating less ot low cunning than is generally stamped on their features ; though in most other respects, sufficiently resembhng them. The men were of the ave- rage stature, well knit, and athletic. They were not tattooed, nei- th
. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. PORTRAIT or AN WOMAN i'.n> lew before. They had a cast ol countenance superior to that of such of their nation as I had hitherto seen, indicating less ot low cunning than is generally stamped on their features ; though in most other respects, sufficiently resembhng them. The men were of the ave- rage stature, well knit, and athletic. They were not tattooed, nei- ther did their vanity incommode them with the lip and nose orna- ments of those farther west; but, had they been disciples of the ancient fathers, who considered " the practice of shaving as a lie against our own faces," they could not have nurtured a more lux- uriant growth of beard, or cultivated more flowing mustachoes. In the former they yielded the palm only to that ol Master George Killingworth, "which was not only thick, broad, and yellow-co- loured, but in length live feet and two inches of ; ' The women were much tattooed about the face and the middle and fourth lingers. The only lady whose portrait wat sketched was so rtattered at being selected for the distinction, that in her fear lest [ should not sufficiently see every grace of her good-tempered coun- tenance, she intently watched my eye ; and according to her notion of the part I was pencilling, protruded it, or turned it so as to leave lue no excuse for not delineating it iu the lull proportion of its beauty. Thus seeing me look at her head, she immediately bent il down •, stared portentously when I sketched ler eyes; puffed out her cheeks when their turn arrived; and linaliy, perceiving that I was touching in ?he mouth, opened it to the full extent of her jaws, and thrust out the whole length of her tongue. She had six (at- tooed lines drawn obliquely from the nostrils across each ch
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