R U S S I A N D 1 S G O V E R I E S, 105 



Their weapons are bows and arrows, lances and darts, 

 which they throw Hke the Greenlanders to the diftance of 

 fixty yards by means of a Uttle hand-board. Both the darts 

 and arrows are feathered : the former are about an ell and 

 an half long ; the fliaft, which is well made confidering 

 their want of inftruments, is often compofed of two pieces 

 that join into each other : the point is of flint, fliarpened 

 by beating it between two ftones. Thefc darts as well as 

 the lances were formerly tipped with bone, but at prefent 

 the points are commonly made of the iron which they 

 procure from the Ruflians, and out of which they 

 ingenioully form little hatchets and two-edged knives. 

 They fhape the iron by rubbing it between two ftones, 

 and whetting it frequently with fea-water. With thefe 

 inftruments and ftone hatchets they build their baidars. 

 They have a ftrange cuftom of cutting holes in the 

 under-lip and through the griftle of the nofe. They 

 place in the former two little bones, wrought in the 

 form of teeth, which projedt fome inches from the 

 face, hi the nofe a piece of bone is placed crofsways. 

 The deccafed are buried with their boat, weapons, and 

 clothes *. 



* The author repeats here feveral circumftances which have been . 

 mentioned before, and many of them will occur again : but my office 

 as a tranflator would not fuffer me to omit them. 



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