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and tie it in a bunch. Some of the men wear their 

 beards ; others fliave or pull them out by the roots. 



They mark various figures on their faces, the backs 

 of their hands, and lower parts of their arms, by prick- 

 ing them firft with a needle, and then rubbing the parts 

 with a fort of black clay. They make three incifions in 

 the under-lip ; they place in the middle one a flat bone, 

 or a fmall coloured ftone ; and in each of the fide- 

 ones they fix a long pointed piece of bone, which 

 bends and reaches almoft to the ears. They likewife 

 make a hole through the griftle of the nofe, into which 

 they put a fmall piece of bone in fuch a manner as 

 to keep the noftrils extended. They alfo pierce holes 

 in their ears, and wear in them what little ornaments 

 they can procure. 



Their drefs confifts of a cap and a fur-coat, which 

 reaches down to the knee. Some of them wear com- 

 mon caps of a party coloured bird-fkin, upon which 

 they leave part of the wings and tail. On the fore-part 

 of their hunting and fifliing caps they place a fmall 

 board like a fcreen, adorned with the jaw-bones of fea-- 

 bears, and ornamented with glafs beads, which they re- 

 ceive in barter from the Ruffians. At their feftivals and 

 dancing parties they ufe a much more fliowy fort of caps. 

 Their fur-coats are made like Ihirts, being clofe behind 

 and beforcj and are put on over the head. The 



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