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modified by Danish influence. The women are
very decorative a combination of Eskimo and
Danish costumes. They wear long generally
green camisole and seal skin pants. Above
this the waist is a European stuff. Around
the neck there may be a large bit of lace
like stuff or one of beads. Their hair is with
chine of in a perpendicular style bound in
blue ribbon if married, red if single, and red
and blue if a widow, green if a harlot.
These people are no longer Eskimos. Some are
more civilized than native. Several could readily
pass for white women if dressed different. One
little girl had red hair and a serious expression
of great quiet time (some Eskimogun had seen her mother).
Mr. & Mrs. Lee have been given the use of a
small native house in which they formed when
the woman and her children of one of the young
governors. This house was built for her when her
lord returned to Denmark.
The lower north opposite Fredhaven are of
grenite up four hundred feet and then up to 2300
feet all is a crumbling basalt. These basalt cliffs
are of a burnt amber color with bands of