-five individuals who passed
the winter at Igloolik, we knew of eighteen deaths and of only nine
births.

The stature of these people is much below that of Europeans in general.
One man, who was unusually tall, measured five feet ten inches, and the
shortest was only four feet eleven inches and a half. Of twenty
individuals of each sex measured at Igloolik, the range was:

Men.--From 5 ft. 10 in. to 4 ft. 11 in.
The average height, 5 ft. 5-1/3 in.
Women.--From 5 ft. 3-1/2 in. to 4 ft. 8-3/4 in.
The average height, 5 ft. 0-1/2 in.

The women, however, generally appear shorter than they really are, both
from the unwieldy nature of their clothes, and from a habit, which they
early acquire, of stooping considerably forward in order to balance the
weight of the child they carry in their hood.

In their figure they are rather well formed than otherwise. Their knees
are indeed rather large in proportion, but their legs are straight, and
the hands and feet, in both sexes, remarkably small. The younger
individuals were all plump, but none of them corpulent; the women
inclined the most to this last extreme, and their flesh was, even in the
youngest individuals, quite loose and without firmness.

Their faces are generally round and full, eyes small and black, nose
also small and sunk far in between the cheek bones, but not much
flattened. It is remarkable, that one man T=e-~a, his brother, his
wife, and two daughters, had good Roman noses, and one of the latter was
an extremely pretty young woman. Their teeth are short, thick, and
close, generally regular, and in the young persons almost always white.
The elderly women were still well furnished in this way, though their
teeth were usually a good deal worn down, probably by the habit of
chewing the sealskins for making boots.

In the young of both sexes the complexion is clear and transparent, and
the skin smooth. The colour of the latter, when divested of oil and
dirt, is scarcely a shade darker than that of a deep brunette, so that
the blood is plainly perceptible when it mounts into the cheeks. In the
old folks, whose faces were much wrinkled, the skin appears of a much
more dingy hue, the dirt being less easily, and, therefore, less
frequently dislodged from them.

By whatever peculiarities, however, they may in general be
distinguished, they are by no means an ill-looking people; and there
were among them three or four grown-up persons of each sex, who, when