This appendage consisted of a half-moon fastened to the back of the head, and extending five or six inches above the forehead.

It was covered with white lawn arranged in folds; its breadth at the back of the head did not exceed an inch and a half, but in front it widened to five or six inches.
The men, I found, were clothed almost like our peasants.

They wore small-clothes of dark cloth, jackets and waistcoats, felt hats, or fur caps; and instead of boots a kind of shoe of ox-hide, sheep, or seal-skin, bound to the feet by a leather strap.

The women, and even the children of the officials, all wear shoes of this description.
It was very seldom that I met people so wretchedly and poorly clad as we find them but too often in the large continental towns.

I never saw any one without good warm shoes and stockings.
The better classes, such as merchants, officials, &c.