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wooden mafks, darts, thread made of finews and reindfeer^ 

 hair, which they get from the country of Alaflca.- 



Their honfliold utenllls are fquare pitchers and large 

 troughs, which they make out of the wood driven afliore 

 Arms. by the fea. Their weapons are bows and arrows pointed 

 with flints, and javeUns of two yards in length, which 

 they throw from a fmall board. Inftead of hatchets they 

 ufe crooked knives of flint or bone. Some iron knives, 

 hatchets, and lances, were obferved amongft them, whichi 

 they had probably got by plundering the Ruffians., 



According to the reports of the oideft inhabitants of 

 Umnak and Unalaflika, they have never been engaged 

 in any war either amongft themfelves or with their 

 neighbours, except once with the people of Alaflika, the 

 occafion of which was as follows : The Toigon of Urn* 

 nak's fon had a maimed hand ; and fome inhabitants of 

 Alaflika, who came upon a vifit to that ifland, faftened 

 to his arm a drum, out of mockery, and invited him to 

 dance. The parents and relations of the boy were of- 

 fended at this infult : hence a quarrel enfued ; and from 

 that time the two people have lived in continual enmity, 

 attacking and plundering each other by turns. Accord- 

 ing to the reports of the iflanders, there are mountains 

 upon Alaflika, and woods of great extent at fome dif- 

 tance from the coaft. The natives wear clothes made of 



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