"Just a good square dirt-color." This last comparison was not far from correct.

The Esquimaux are, as a matter of fact, considerably darker than the red Indians of the United States.

They are not reddish: they are brown, to which grease and dinginess add not a little.

On they came till within fifty yards; when all drew up on a sudden, and sat regarding us in something like silence.

Perhaps our bayonets, with the sunlight flashing on them, may have filled them with a momentary suspicion of danger.