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>778. Their furniture confills chiefly of n great number of 



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chefts and boxes of all fizes, which are generally piled 

 upon each other, clofe to the lides or ends of the houfe ; 

 and contain their fpare garments, fkins, mafks, and other 

 things which they fet a value upon. Some of thefe are 

 double, or one covers the other as a lid ; others have a lid 

 faftened with thongs ; and feme of the very large ones 

 have a fquare hole, or fcuttle, cut in the upper part ; by 

 which the things are put in and taken out. 1 hey are often 

 painted black, fludded with the teeth of different animals, 

 or carved with a kind of freeze- work, and figures of birds 

 or animals, as decorations. Their other domeftic utcnfils 

 are moftly fquare and oblong pails or buckets to hold 

 water and other things ; round wooden cups and bowls >. 

 and fmall fhallow wooden troughs, about two feet long, 

 out of which they eat their food ; and bafkets of twigs, 

 bags of matting, &c. Their fifliing implements, and other 

 things alfo, lie or hang up in different parts of the houfe, 

 but without the leafl order; fo that the whole is a complete 

 fcene of confufion ; and the only places that do not partake 

 of this confufion are the lleeping-benches, that have no- 

 thing on them but the mats ; which are alfo cleaner, or of 

 a finer fort, than thofe they commonly have to fit on in their 

 boats. 



The naftinefs and ftench of their houfes are, however, at 

 leaft equal to the confufion. For, as they dry their fifli 

 within doors, they alfo gut them there, which, with their 

 bones and fragments thrown down at meals, and the addi- 

 tion of other forts of filth, lie every where in heaps, and 

 are, I believe, never carried away, till it becomes trouble- 

 fome, from their fize, to walk over them. In a word, their 

 houfes are as filthy as hog-flies ; every thing in and about 



them flinking of fifh, train-oil, and fmoke. 



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