Some of the younger men are, however, improving; they are willing to labour, and a short time since a party went on a sealing-voyage, and behaved very well.
They were now enjoying the fruits of their labour, by being dressed in very gay, clean clothes, and by being very idle.

The taste they showed in their dress was admirable; if you could have turned one of these young Indians into a statue of bronze, his drapery would have been perfectly graceful.
One day I rode to a large salt-lake, or Salina, which is distant fifteen miles from the town.

During the winter it consists of a shallow lake of brine, which in summer is converted into a field of snow-white salt.

The layer near the margin is from four to five inches thick, but towards the centre its thickness increases.

This lake was two and a half miles long, and one broad.