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a moment and then dashed their oar paddles into the water & came alongside and several of them recognizing Mr. Reynolds who was here in June with dog sled - they all pointed at him laughed as though greatly pleased & one man began to make the motions of driving dogs & 

nose & slightly retreating chin & forehead gave him a face strikingly like that of a monkey. The rest of the men showed very little signs of hairiness only a slight fuzziness over the face being seen. They average at least a tall & average [[?]] [[?]] stood about left. Their heads appear to be very long from chin to crown and are made to [[?]] that shape in a striking manner from the shaved crown. The women were tattooed as in the following sketches with radiating lines on the chin & two lines down the nose from middle of forehead & 2 or 3 lines down side of face. The whole were good natured & not very demonstrative & with non of the boisterous action & manners of the natives on the american shore & on the Bering Sea Chukchee & Eskimos.