OF THE FUR TRADE, &c. xclil

left in the long, lank, flow of nature. They very generally extraét
their beards, and both fexes manifeft a difpofition to pluck the hair from
every part of the body and limbs. Their eyes are black, keen, and
penetrating; their countenance open and agreeable, and itis a principal
object of their vanity to give every poffible decoration to their perfons.
A material article in their toilettes is vermilion, which they contraft
with their native blue, white, and brown earths, to which charcoal is
frequently added.

Their drefs is at once fimple and commodious. It confifts of tight
leggins, reaching near the hip: a firip of cloth or leather, called
affian, about a foot wide, and five feet long, whofe ends are drawn
inwards and hang behind and before, over a belt tied round the
waift for that purpofe: a clofe veft or fhirt reaching down to the
former garment, and cinétured with a broad {trip of parchment faftened
with thongs behind; anda cap for the head, confifting of a piece of
fur, or {mall fkin, with the brufh of the animal as a fufpended orna-
ment: a kind of robe is thrown occafionally over the whole of the
drefs, and ferves both night and day. Thefe articles, with the ad-
dition of fhoes and mittens, conflitute the variety of their apparel.
The materials vary according to the feafon, and confift of drefled
moofe-fkin, beaver prepared with the fur, or European woollens.
The leather is neatly painted, and fancifully worked in fome parts with
porcupine quills, .and moofe-deer hair: the fhirts and leggins are alfo
adorned with fringe and taffels; nor are the fhoes and mittens with-
out fomewhat of appropriate decoration, and worked with a con-
fiderable degree of {kill and tafte. Thefe habiliments are put on, how-

ever,