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ter until it is quiet. This cuftom is fo far from doing 

 the children any harm, that it hardens them againft 

 the cold ; and they accordingly go bare-footed through 

 the winter without the leaft inconvenience. They are 

 alfo trained to bathe frequently in the fea ; and it is 

 an opinion generallly received among the iflanders, that 

 by that means they are rendered bold, and become for- 

 tunate in filhing. 



The men wear fliirts made of the fkins of cormo- dku. 

 rants, fea-divers, and gulls ; and, in order to keep out 

 the rain, they have upper garments of the bladders and 

 other inteftines of fea-lions, fea-calves, and whales, 

 blown up and dried. They cut their hair in a circular 

 form clofe to their ears ; and fhave alfo a round place 

 upon the top. The women, on the contrary, let the 

 hair defcend over the forehead as low as the eye-brows, 

 and tie the remaining part in a knot upon the top of 

 the head. They pierce the ears, and hang therein 

 bits of coral which they get from the Ruffians. Both 

 fexes make holes in the griftle of the nofe, and ia 

 the under-lips, in which they thruft pieces of bone, 

 and are very fond of fuch kind of ornaments. They 

 mark alfo and colour their faces with different figures. 

 They barter among one another fea-otters, fea-bears, 

 clothes made of bird-fkins and of dried inteftines, fkins 

 of fea-lions and fea-calves for the coverings of baidars, 



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