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54 of the figures were more agreeable, and more ornamented than those of the Esquimaux, which exhibit hardly any vestige of the human figure, she instantly laid hold of the Esquimaux woman, and then of the man, which she attentively considered one after the other, without speaking; not as any thing new or extraordinary to her, but as something which she had seen before, tho' ignorant where, and which she desired to recollect. Perceiving her so attentive to these two figures, I ask'd her smiling, in order to make her speak, whether she discovered there any of her relations; I cannot tell, answered she, but I think I have seen that somewhere. How! said I, men and women of that shape? Pretty much so, answered she; but they had not that, (pointing to a sort of gloves which my figures have): We never had any thing on our hands, continued she, unless when we caught any large eels, or such like fishes; which we would skin, and then thrust our hands and arms into these skins, which reached up to our elbows. What a comical dress, replied I! Was that, of which you have an idea, no longer than this? (That of my figures reaches only to about the middle of the thigh.) I think not, answered she; but the hair was not on the outside, as here. I then took up some figures of my other savages, observing to her the strange fashion of their ear-rings. She hardly took her eye of the first,