CXX A GENERAL HISTORY

countenance. The women have a more agreeable afpeét than the men,
but their gait is awkward, which proceeds from their being accuftomed,
nine months in the year, to travel on fnow-fhoes and drag fledges
-of a weight from two to four hundred pounds. They are very fubmif-
five to their hufbands, who have, however, their fits of jealoufy; and,
for very trifling caufes, treat them with fuch cruelty as fometimes to oc-
cafion their death. They are frequently objetts of traffic; and the father
pofleffes the right of difpofing of his daughter*. The men in general
-extraét their beards, though. fome of them are feen to prefer a bufhy,
black beard, to a fmooth chin. They cut their hair in various forms, or
leave it in a long, natural flow, according as their caprice or fancy
fuggefts. The women always wear it in great length, and fome of them
-are very attentive to its arrangement. If they at any time appear de-
fpoiled of their trefles, it is to be efteemed a proof of the hufband’s
jealoufy, and is confidered as a feverer punifhment than manual cor-
reftion. Both fexes have blue or black bars, or from one to four
ftraight lines on their cheeks or forehead, to diftinguifh the tribe to
which they belong. Thefe marks are either tatooed, or made by draw-

ing a thread, dipped in the neceffary colour, beneath the fkin.

There are no people more attentive to the comforts of their drefs, or
lefs anxious refpetting its exterior appearance. In the winter it is com-
pofed of the fkins of deer, and their fawns, and drefled as fine as any
chamois leather, in the hair. In the fummer their apparel is the fame,

except that it is prepared without the hair. Their fhoes and leggins

* They do not, however, fell them as flaves, but as companions to thofe who are fuppofed to live
more comfortably than themfelves.

are