The Indian Races of North And South America: Comprising An Account of the ...
The Indian Races of North And South America: Comprising An Account of the ...
Charles De Wolf Brownell
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They have universally coal-black, straight, strong and long hair on their heads, but no beards, because they root it out." — These last particulars will be seen to be variant from the description given above by Charlevoix, of the race in general — Crantz proceeds: "Their hands and feet are little and sofb, but their head and the rest of their limbs are large. They have high breasts and broad shoulders ; their whole body is &t." The descriptions handed down by the most ancient voyagers to Greenl...and of the Skr«llings or natives whom they encountered, corresponds very nearly with the general ouUine above given. They speak of them as a dwarfish 27 Digitized by LjOOQ IC 474 INDIAN BACES OF AMERICA. people — seldom more than four feet four inches in height ; suspicious and hostile towards strangers ; subsisting upon the products of the sea ; clothed in the same style, and using the same weapons, boats and implements, as those still in- habiting the country. The inhospitable nature of their climate, their slender resources, and the deterioration of the race consequent upon such a mode of life as theirs, seem to preclude the, probability of much improvement ever taking place in their condition.
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