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amongfl: the females of Greenland, as we learn from Crantz *. 'r-s. 

 Their bodies are not painted, which may be owing to the ' ■ « -t 

 fcarcity of proper materials ; for all the colours which they 

 brought to fell in bladders, were in very fmall quantities. 

 Upon the whole, I have no where feen favages who take 

 more pains than thefe people do, to ornament, or rather to 

 disfigure their perfons. 



Their boats or canoes arc of two forts ; the one being 

 large and open, and the other fmall and covered. I men- 

 tioned already, that in one of the large boats were twenty 

 women, and one man, befides children. I attentively ex- 

 amined and compared the conftruftion of this, with Crantz's 

 defcription of what he calls the great, or women's boat in 

 Greenland, and found that they were built in the fame 

 manner, parts like parts, with no other difference than in 

 the form of the head and flern ; particularly of the firft, 

 which bears fome refemblance to the head of a whale. The 

 framing is of (lender pieces of wood, over which the fkins 

 of feals, or of other larger fea-animals, arc ftrctched, to 

 compofe the outfide. It appeared alfo, that the fmall canoes 

 of thefe people are made nearly of the fame form, and of 

 the fame materials with thofc ufed by the Greenlanders f 

 and Efquimaux -, at leaft the difference is not material. 

 Some of thefe, as I have before obferved, carry two men. 

 They are broader in proportion to their length than thofe of 

 the Efquimaux ; and the head or fore-part curves fomcwhat 

 like the head of a violin. 



The weapons, and inllruments for fifliing and hunting, 

 arc the very fame that are made ufe of by the Efquimaux and 

 Greenlanders ; and it is unneceffary to be particular in my 



* Vo]. i, p. 138. t ^^^ Crantz, Vol. i. p 150 



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