[9]. Parl. Rop., 1854, vol. 42, opp. p. 186.
[10]. Op. cit., p. 265.
[11]. Corwin Report, p. 72.
[12]. Op. cit., p. 264.
[13]. Simpson, op. cit., p. 238.
[14]. See Report of Point Barrow Expedition, p. 50, for a table of measurements of a number of individuals selected at random from the natives of both villages and their visitors.
[15]. Op. cit., p. 238.
[16]. Davis (1586) speaks of the “small, slender hands and feet” of the Greenlanders. Hakluyt’s Voyages, etc. (1589), p. 782.
“Their hands and feet are little and soft.” Crantz, vol. 1, p. 133 (Greenland).
Hands and feet “extremely diminutive,” Parry 1st Voy., p. 282 (Baffin Land).