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Prociuaions. ^ij^nftions IMC bilbcmes, cranberries, wortleberries, and 

 uilcl lily-roots. Kadyak likewife yields willows and al- 

 ders, which circumftance afibrds the ftrongeft proof that 

 it lies at no great diftance from the continent of America. 

 The extent of Kadyak cannot be exacftly afcertained, 

 as the Rullians, through apprehenfion of the natives, did 

 not venture to explore the country. 



Account of the •j^i^q inhabitants, like thofe of the Aleutian and nearer 



Inliabicants. ' 



iflands, make holes in the under-lips and through the 

 griftle of the nofe, in which they infert the bones of 

 birds and animals worked into the form of teeth. Their 

 clothes are made of the fkins of birds, foxes, fea-otters, 

 young rein-deer, and marmofets ; they few them together 

 with finews. They wear alfo fur-ftockings of rein-deer 

 Ikins, but no breeches. Their arms are bows, arrows, 

 and lances, whofe points, as well as their fmall hatchets, 

 are of fliarp flint : fome few make knives and lance 

 points of rein-deer bones. Their wooden fliields are 

 called kuyaky, which amongft the Greenlanders fignifies 

 a fmall canoe. Their manners are altogether rude. 

 They have not the leaft difpofition to give a courteous 

 reception to Grangers : nor does there appear amongft 

 themfelves any kind of deference or fubmiffion from 

 one to another. 



Their canoes are fome of them fo fmall as to contain 



only one or two perfons ; others are large baidars fimilar 



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