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these stratagemes, thereby to have caught some of us, 

 for the delivering of the man, woman and child whom 

 we had taken. 



They are men of a large corporature, and good pro- 

 portion : their colour is not much unlike the Sunne burnt 

 Countrey man, who laboureth daily in the Sunne for his 

 living. 



They weare their haire something long, and cut before 

 either with stone or knife, very disorderly. Their women 

 weare their haire long, and knit up with two loupes, 

 shewing forth on either side of their faces, and the rest 

 foltred upon a knot. Also some of their women race 

 their faces proportionally, as chinne, cheekes, and fore- 

 head, and the wrists of their hands, whereupon they lay 

 a colour which continueth darke azurine. 



They eate their meat all raw, both flesh, fish, and 

 foule, or something per boyled with blood and a little 

 water which they drinke. For lacke of water they will 

 eate yce, that is hard frosen, as pleasantly as we will do 

 Sugar Candie, or other Sugar. 



If they for necessities sake stand in need of the pre- 

 misses, such grasse as the Countrey yeeldeth they plucke 

 up and eate, not deintily, or salletwise to allure their 

 stomacks to appetite : but for necessities sake without 

 either salt, oyles or washing, like brute beasts devouring 

 the same. They neither use table, stoole, or table cloth 

 for comlines : but when they are imbrued with blood 

 knuckle deepe, and their knives in like sort, they use 

 their tongues as apt instruments to lick them cleane : 

 in doing whereof they are assured to loose none of their 

 victuals. 

 Dogges like They frank or keepe certaine dogs not much unlike 

 unto wolves, Wolves, which they yoke togither, as we do oxen & 

 horses, to a sled or traile : and so carry their necessaries 

 over the yce and snow from place to place : as the 

 captive, whom we have, made perfect signes. And when 

 those dogs are not apt for the same use : or when with 

 hunger they are constrained for lacke of other victuals, 



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