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mens drefs is made of birds flviiis, but the womens of 

 fea-otters and fea-bears. Thefe Ik-ins are died with a 

 fort of red earth, and neatly fewed with finews, and 

 ornamented with various llripes of fea-otter fkins and 

 leathern fringes. They have alfo upper garments made 

 of the inteftines of the largeft fea-calves and fea- lions. 



Their vefTels confift of two forts : the larger are lea- 

 thern boats or baidars, which have oars on both fides, 

 and are capable of holding thirty or forty people. The 

 fmaller vcffels are rowed with a double paddle, and re- 

 femble the canoes of the Greenlanders, containing only 

 one or two perfons: they never weigh above thirty 

 pounds, being nothing but a thin fkeleton of a boat 

 covered with leather. In thefe however they pafs from 

 one iiland to another, and even venture out to fea to a 

 confiderable diftance. In calm weather they go out in 

 them to catch turbot and cod with bone-hooks and lines 

 made of fniews or fea-weed. They ftrike fifli in the 

 rivulets with darts. Whales and other fea-animals 

 thrown afliore by the waves are carefully looked after, 

 and no part of them is loft. The quantity of provi>- 

 fions which they procure by hvmting and lilliing 

 being far too fmall for their wants, the greateft part of 

 their food confifts of fea-wrack and fliell-fifli, which 

 they find on the fliore. 



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