Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 . was bedaubed with oil andivory-black, as were also his long beard and mustaches, the naturalhue of which I understood was quite gray. From his begrimed lookhe has obtained the sobriquet of Old Snuff, among the whites; he isabout sixty-five years old, tall, slender, and rather bent by age; on hisbreast, hanging from his neck, he wore an ornament made of mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, and ivory, not very neatly put together, and aslarge as a dinner-plate, (called diva ndina); on his arms he ha
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 . was bedaubed with oil andivory-black, as were also his long beard and mustaches, the naturalhue of which I understood was quite gray. From his begrimed lookhe has obtained the sobriquet of Old Snuff, among the whites; he isabout sixty-five years old, tall, slender, and rather bent by age; on hisbreast, hanging from his neck, he wore an ornament made of mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, and ivory, not very neatly put together, and aslarge as a dinner-plate, (called diva ndina); on his arms he had shellarmlets, (called ygato,) made of the trochus-shell by grinding them downto the form of rings; his countenance was indicative of intelligenceand shrewdness, as far as it could be seen; his mind is said to bequite active; he is about five feet ten inches in height, and of smallframe; his features are rather inclined to the European mould, andnot the least allied to the negro; his hair is crispy; he speaks throughhis nose, or rather as if he had lost his palate; his body is like that of -a-*. J^-
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