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same manner, parts like parts, with no other differ- 

 ence than in the form of the head and stern, particu- 

 larly of the first, which bears some resemblance to 

 the head of a whale. The framing is of slender 

 pieces of wood, over which the skins of seals, or of 

 other larger sea-animals, are stretched to compose the 

 outside. It appeared also, that the small canoes of 

 these people are made nearly of the same form, and 

 of the same materials, with those used by the Green- 

 landers * and Esquimaux, at least the difference is 

 not material. Some of these, as I have before ob- 

 served, carry two men ; they are broader in propor- 

 tion to their length than those of the Esquimaux, 

 and the head or fore-part curves somewhat like the 

 head of a violin. 



The weapons and instruments for fishing and 

 hunting are the very same that are made use of by 

 the Esquimaux and Greenlanders, and it is unne- 

 cessary to be particular in my account of them, as 

 they are all very accurately described by Crantz. f I 

 did not see a single one with these people that he has 

 not mentioned, nor has he mentioned one that they 

 have not. For defensive armour, they have a kind 

 of jacket or coat of mail made of thin laths bound 

 together with sinews, which makes it quite flexible, 

 though so close as not to admit an arrow or dart. It 

 only covers the trunk of the body, and may not be 

 improperly compared to a woman's stays. 



As none of these people lived in the bay where we 

 anchored, or where any of us landed, we saw none of 

 their habitations, and I had not time to look after 

 them. Of their domestic utensils, they brought in their 

 boats some round and oval shallow dishes of wood ; 

 and others of a cylindrical shape much deeper. The 

 sides were made of one piece, bent round like chip- 

 boxes, though thick, neatly fastened with thongs, 



* See Crantz, vol. i. p. 150. 



f Vol. i. p. 14-6. He has also given a representation of them 

 on a plate there inserted. 



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