a monotonous chant consisting only of the note and third are the only in tbe way of music among the more remote of which have any knowledge mrs s singing has been described as the table beer of singing is something more the beer has become flat by the addition of ice one of onr who is quite a on his instrument with a view to see what effect music would have on the savage breast but his best efforts at rendering madame aud the were wasted before an audience who showed as little appreciation of his performance as some people do when listening to s music of the future where tbey have come in contact with civilization their musical taste is more developed at saint michael s i was told that some of their songs are so characteristic that it is much to be regretted that some of them cannot be op in a and sent to a musical of steamer in the on the coast of i heard an boy sing correctly a song he had learned while on rd a vessel and on several of the islands the natives play the quite well b ve nd even whistle strains from from to dancing the transition is obvious no matter whether the latter be i in a sense as a device to attract the opposite sex or as the expression of joyous excitement this of feeling in its bodily discharge which moses and and david indulged in which is with poetry by and which old says is the sweetest and most perfect of human is a much in among the and it required but little provocation to start a dance at any time on the s decks when a party happened to be on board their dancing however had not the of a wave of the sea nor was there the harmony of double in a series of graceful curves to strains like those of or on the contrary there was something and about all the dancing i saw both among the men and women it is the custom at some of their after the hunting is over for the men to indulge in a kind of performance at the same time relating in style the heroic deeds they have done at other times the women more than our beauties at the german for they strip to the waist do all the dancing and the men take the part of spectators only in this performance instinct the shown by in and drawing has been noticed by all travellers among them some i have met with show a degree of intelligence and appreciation in regard to and pictures scarcely to be expected from such a source from ivory they figures of birds marine animals and even the human form which display considerable individuality notwithstanding their crude and imperfect detail i liave also seen a fair carving of a whale in evidences of are sometimes seen on their on which are found rude pictures of c and they have a kind of picture writing by means of which they certain events in their lives just as sitting bull has done in an that may be seen at the army medical museum when we were searching for the missing off the coast some natives were come across with whom we were unable to communicate except by signs and wishing to let them know the object of our visit a ship was drawn in a note book and shown to them with accompanying which they quickly comprehended and one fellow taking the pencil and drew correctly a pair of horns on the ship s boom � a fact which identified beyond doubt the vessel they had seen at point hope an who had allowed us to take sketches of him desired to sketch one of the party and taking one of our note books and a pencil neither of which he ever had in his hand before produced the accompanying likeness of professor at saint michael s there is an boy who draws remarkably well having taught himself by from the illustrated london news he made a correct pen and ink drawing of the and another of the group of buildings at saint michael s which though creditable in many respects had the defect of many chinese pictures being in perspective as these drawings equal those in dr s book done by artists i regret my inability to them here f as evidences of culture they show more advancement than the of english that a clergyman has caused to be placed on exhibition at the museum sir john speaks highly of his as an artist says that the knowledge of the coast obtained by him from maps was of the greatest value while hall and others show their knowledge to be as perfect as that possible of by civilized men by instruments had frequent opportunities to observe these ideas of they not only understood reading a of the coast when showed to them but would make of the part as i knew a native to do in the case of an river the mouth only of which was laid down on our of the art which is found among tribes less intelligent is rare among the of ik the ocean in fact the only thing of the kind seen was some rude at saint island the design of which showed but crude development of ornamental ideas the same state of advancement was shown in some drinking cups carved from ivory and a made from the horn of a mountain sheep in one of the acts of shakespeare s seven ages the plays a very unimportant r e perhaps in no other race is the instinct less in none is of disposition and jealousy more absent and in none does the desire for the renown of war exist in a more and state perhaps the constant fight with cold and hunger is a 