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^7f9- faw about them ; for they wear none to the lips. This Is 



*— V ' another thing in which they differ from the Americans we 



had lately feen. 



Their clothing confided of a cap, a frock, a pair of 

 breeches, a pair of boots, and a pair of gloves, all made of 

 leather, or of the fkins of deer, dogs, feals, Sec. and ex- 

 tremely well dreffed ; forae with the hair or fur on ; but 

 others without it. The caps were made to fit the head very 

 clofe; and befides thefe caps, which moft of them wore, we 

 got from them fome hoods, made of fkins of dogs, that 

 were large enough to cover both head and fhoulders. Their 

 hair feemed to be black ; but their heads were either fliav-. 

 ed, or the hair cut clofe off; and none of them wore any 

 beard. Of the few articles which they got from us, knives 

 and tobacco were what they valued moft. 



We found the village compofed both of their fummer and. 

 their winter habitations. The latter are exactly like a vault, 

 the floor of which is funk a little below the furface of the 

 earth. One of them, which I examined, was of an ovsl 

 form, about twenty feet long, and twelve or more high. 

 The framing was compofed of wood, and the ribs of whales, 

 difpofed in a judicious manner, and bound together with 

 fmaller materials of the fame fort. Over this framing is laid 

 a covering of ftrong coarfc grafs ; and that again is covered 

 with earth; fo that, on the outfidc, the houfe looks like a 

 little hillock, fupported by a wall of ftonc, thix^c or four feet 



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high, which is built round the tvt^o fides, and one end. At' 

 the other end, the earth is raifed Hoping, to walk up to the 

 entrance, which is by a hole in the top of the roof over that: 

 end. The floor was boarded, and under it a kind of cellar, 

 in which I faw nothing but water. And at the end of each- 



houfe- 



