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thcmfclvcs in winter, whenever it freezes very hard, 

 they burn a heap of dry grafs, over which they Ifand 

 and catch the heat under their clothes. The clothes of 

 the women and children are made of fea-otter il'^ins, in 

 the fame form as thofe belonging to the men. When- 

 ever they pafs the night at a diftance from home, they 

 dig a hole in the earth, and lay themfelves dov/n in it, 

 covered only with their clothes and mats of platted grafs. 

 Regardlefs of every thing but the prefent moment, delli- 

 tute of religion, and without the leaft appearance of de- 

 cency, they feem but few degrees removed from brutes* 



As foon as the feveral baidars fent out upon hunting 

 parties were returned, and the veflel got ready for their 

 departure, the Toigons of thefe iflands (excepting Ka- 

 naga) came in baidars to Tolftyk, accompanied with a 

 confiderable number of the natives; their names were 

 Tfarkulini, Tlhunila, Kayugotflv and Mayatok. They 

 brought with them a voluntary tribute, making prefents 

 of pieces of dried falmon, and unanimoufly expreffing 

 their fatisfaftion upon the good conducft of the Ruffians. 

 Tolftyk gave them in return feme toys and other trifles, 

 and defired them to lecommend to the inhabitants of the 

 other iflands the like friendly behaviour towards the Ruf- 

 fian merchants who fnould come amongll them, if they 

 had a mind to be treated in the fame manner. 



June 14, 1764, they failed for Kamtchatka, and an- 

 chored on the 1 9th before Shemiya, one of the Aleutian 



IflaJids. 



