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1778- account of them, as they are all very accurately defcribed 

 ._ ^^J' . by Crantz *. I did not fee a fingle one with thefe people 

 that he has not mentioned ; nor has he mentioned one that 

 they have not. For defenfive armour they have a kind of 

 jacket, or coat of mail, made of thin laths, bound together 

 with fmews, which makes it quite flexible, though fo clofe 

 as not to admit an arrow or dart. It only covers the trunk 

 of the body, and may not be improperly compared to a wo- 

 man's flays. 



As none of thefe people lived in the bay where we an- 

 chored, or where any of us landed, we faw none of their 

 habitations ; and I had not time to look after them. Of their 

 domeilic utenfils, they brought in their boats fome round 

 and oval fhallow diflies of wood ; and others of a cylindical 

 fliapc much deeper. The fides were made of one piece, 

 bent round, like our chip-boxes, though thick, neatly 

 faftened v/ith thongs, and the bottoms fixed in with fmall 

 wooden pegs. Others were fmaller, and of a more elegant 

 fhape, fomewhat refembling a large oval butter-boat, with- 

 out a handle, but more fliallow, made from a piece of 

 wood, or horny fubllance. Thefe laft were fomeiimes 

 neatly carved. They had many little fquare bags, made 

 of the fame gut with their outer frocks, neatly orna- 

 mented with very minute red feathers interwoven with it, 

 in which were contained fome very fine finews, and bundles 

 of fmall cord, made from them, mort ingeniouily plaited. 

 They alfo brought many chequered balkcts, fo clofely. 

 wrought as to hold water ; fome wooden models of their 

 canoes ; a good many little images, four or five inches 

 long, either of wood, or ftuircd ; which were covered with 



* Vol. i. p. 14.6. He has alfo given a reprefcntatlon of them on a plate there in- 

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