[Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 by John Franklin]@TWC D-Link bookNarrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 CHAPTER IV 19/86
Their countenances are affable and pleasing, their eyes large and expressive, nose aquiline, teeth white and regular, the forehead bold, the cheek-bones rather high.
Their figure is usually good, above the middle size, with slender, but well proportioned, limbs.
Their colour is a light copper, and they have a profusion of very black hair, which hangs over the ears, and shades the face.
Their dress, which I think extremely neat and convenient, consists of a vest and trowsers of leather fitted to the body; over these a buffalo robe is thrown gracefully.
These dresses are in general cleaned with _white-mud_, a sort of marl, though some use _red earth_, a kind of bog-iron-ore; but this colour neither looks so light, nor forms such an agreeable contrast as the white with the black hair of the robe.
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