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*- — - — -> frocks made of the flcius of fowls, with only the down re- 

 maining on them, which they glue on other fubftances. 

 And we faw one or two woollen garments like thofe of 

 Nootka. At the" fcams, where the different fkins are fewed 

 together, they are commonly ornamented with taffels or 

 fringes of narrow thongs, cut out of the fame fkins. A few 

 have a kind of cape, or collar; and fome a hood ; but the 

 other is the mod common form, and feems to be their 

 whole drefs in good weather. When it rains, they put over 

 this another frock, ingenioully made from the inteflines of 

 whales, or fome other large animal, prepared fo fkilfully, as 

 almofl to refemble our gold beaters leaf. It is made to draw 

 tight round the neck ; its fleeves reach as low as the wrift, 

 round which they are tied with a firing; and its fkirts, 

 when they are in their canoes, are drawn over the rim of 

 the hole in v/hich they fit ; fo that no water can enter. At 

 the fame time, it keeps the men entirely dry upward. For 

 110 water can penetrate through it, any more than through 

 a bladder. It mud be kept continually moifl; or wet ; other- 

 wife it is apt to crack or break. This, as well as the com- 

 mon frock made of the flcins, bears a great refemblance to 

 the drefs of the Greenlanders, as defcribed by Crantz*. 



In general, they do not cover their legs, or feet ; but a 

 few have a kind of ikin (lockings, which reach half-way 



* Crantz's Hiflory of Greenland, Vol. i. p. 136—138. The render will find in 

 Crantz many very ftriking inftances, in which the Greenlanders, and Americans of 

 Prince William's Sound, rcfcmblc each other, hcfides thofe mentioned in this Chapter 

 by Captain Cook. The drefs of the people of Prince William's Sound, as defcribed 

 by Captain Cook, alfo agrees with that of the inhabitants of Schumagin's Iflands, dif- 

 covercd by Beering in 1741. Mullcr's words are, " Lcur habillement ctoit de 

 " boyaux dc baleincs pour Je haut du corps, ct dc pcaux de chiens-marins pour Ic bas." 

 Dicouvertci da Rnjfa-, p. 274. 



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