THE   PACIFIC   OCEAN.                  509
could never find out. There was feme reafon to think that
O&ober.
they are.
Thefe people are rather low of ftature, but plump and
well fhaped; with rather fhort necks; fwarthy chubby
faces; black eyes; fmall beards ; and long, ftraight, black
hair; which the men wear loofe behind, and cut before,
but the women tie up in a bunch.
Their drefs has been occafionally mentioned. Both fej£e$
wear the fame in fafhion; the only difference.is in the ma*
terials. The women's frock is made of feal fkin; and that
of the men, of the Ikins of birds ; both reaching below the
knee. This is the whole drefs of the women. But, over
the frock, the men wear another made of gut, which re-
fifts water; and has a hood to it, which draws over the head.
Some of them wear boots; and all of them have a kind of
oval fnouted cap, made of wood, with a rim to admit the
head. Thefe caps are dyed with green and other colours;
and round the upper part of the rim, are ftuck the long
briftles of fome fea-animai, on which are ftrung glafs
beads; and on the front is a fmall image or two made of
bone.
They make ufe of no paint; but the women puncture
their faces flightly; and both men and women bore tbje
under-lip, to which they fix pieces of bone. But it is as Tmr
common, at Oonalafhka, to fee a man with this ornament,
as to fee a woman without it. Some fix beads to the upper
lip, under the noftrils; and all of them hang ornaments in
their ears.
Their food confifts of fiih, fea-animals, birds, roots, and
berries ; and even of fea-weed. They dry large quantities
of filh in fummer; which they lay up in fmall huts for
winter ufe; and, probably, they preferve roots and berries
for