MARTIN FROBISHER ad. 



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 they eate them : so that they are as needfull for them They eate dogs 

 in respect of their bignesse, as our oxen are for us. fi estl - 



They apparell themselves in the skins of such beasts 

 as they kill, sewed together with the sinewes of them. 

 All the foule which they kill, they skin, and make 

 thereof one kind of garment or other, to defend them 

 from the cold. 



They make their apparel with hoods and tailes, which Hoods and 

 tailes they give when they thinke to gratifie any friend- mles t0 thetr 

 ship shewed unto them : a great signe of friendship 

 with them. The men have them not so side as the 

 women. 



The men and women weare their hose close to their 

 legges, from the wast to the knee without any open 

 before, as well the one kind as the other. Upon their 

 legges they weare hose of leather, with the furre side 

 inward two or three paire on at once, and especially the 

 women. In those hose they put their knives, needles, 

 and other things needfull to beare about. They put a 

 bone within their hose, which reacheth from the foote to 

 the knee, whereupon they draw their said hose, and so 

 in place of garters they are holden from falling downe 

 about their feete. 



They dresse their skinnes very soft and souple with 

 the haire on. In cold weather or Winter they weare 

 the furre side inward : and in Summer outward. Other 

 apparell they have none but the said skinnes. 



Those beasts, fishes, and foules, which they kill, are 

 their meat, drinke, apparell, houses, bedding, hose, shooes, 

 threed, and sailes for their boates, with many other 

 necessaries whereof they stand in need, and almost all 

 their riches. 



Their houses are tents made of Seale skins, pitched Their houses 



up with 4. Firre quarters foure square meeting at the °f s f?ff skim 



ji i- i 1 • 1 ji-j *»« Firre. 



top, and the skins sewed together with sinewes, and laid 



thereupon : they are so pitched up, that the entrance 



into them is alwayes South or against the Sunne. 



They have other sorts of houses which we found not 



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