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>77?' oufly more convenient and cleanly. But they feem to have 

 no idea of cleanlinefs ; for they eat the roots which they dig 

 from the ground, without fo much as fliaking off the foil 

 that adheres to them. 



We are uncertain if they have any fet time for meals ; 

 for we have feen them eat at all hours, in their canoes. 

 And yet, from feeing feveral mefTes of the porpoife broth 

 preparing toward noon, when we vifited the village, I 

 fhould fufpefl that they make a principal meal about that 

 time. 



Their weapons are bows and arrows, flings, fpears, fhort 

 truncheons of bone, fomewhat like the /)a/0(3/)fl/oo of New Zea- 

 land, and a fmall pick-axe, not unlike the common American 

 tomahaivk. The fpear has generally a long point, made of 

 bone. Some of the arrows are pointed with iron ; but moll 

 commonly their points were of indented bone. The toma- 

 hawk is a (lone, fix or eight inches long, pointed at one end, 

 and the other end fixed into a handle of wood. This handle 

 refembles the head and neck of the human figure; and the 

 ftone is fixed in the mouth, fo as to reprefent an enormoufly 

 large tongue. To make the refemblance ftill llronger, hu- 

 man hair is alfo fixed to it. This weapon they call taaiueejl^y 

 or tfiijkeeah. They have another fl:one weapon called feeaik, 

 nine inches or a foot long, with a fquare point. 



From the number of ftone weapons, and others, we 

 might almoft conclude, that it is their cuftom to en- 

 gage in clofe fight ; and we had too convincing proofs 

 that their wars are both frequent and bloody, from the 

 vaft number of human fcuUs which they brought to 

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