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lines they make ufe of a firing made of a long tenacious 

 fea-weed, which is fometimes found in thofe feas near one 

 hundred and lixty yards in length. 



Whenever they are wounded in any encounter, or 

 bruifed by any accident, they apply a fort of yellow root 

 to the wound, and faft for fome time. When their 

 head achs, they open a vein in that part with a flone 

 lancet. When they want to glue the points of their ar- 

 rows to the fhaft, they ftrike their nofe till it bleeds, and 

 ufe the blood as glue. 



Murder is not puniflied amongft them, for they have 

 no judge. With refp.etl; to their ceremonies of burying 

 the dead, they are as follow : The bodies of poor people 

 are wrapped up in their own clothes, or in mats ; then 

 laid in a grave, and covered over with earth. The bodies 

 of the rich are put, together with their clothes and arms, 

 in a fmall boat made of the wood driven afliore by the 

 fea : this boat is hung upon poles placed crofs-ways ; and 

 the body is thus left to rot in the open air. 



The cufloms and manners of the inhabitants of the 

 Aleiitian Ifles are nearly limilar to thofe of the inhabi- 

 tants of the Fox Iflands. The former indeed are ren- 

 dered 



