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cunng furs for the Ruffians : by thefe means, they 

 negledl to lay up a provifion of fifli and roots ; and. 

 fuffer their children frequently to die of hunger. 



Their principal food is fifli, which they catch with 

 bone hooks. Their boats, in which they row to a- 

 great diftance from land, are made, like thofe of the 

 Innuet or Efquimaux, of thin flips of wood and flcins: 

 thefe fkins cover the top as well as the fides of the 

 boat, and are drawn tight round the w^aift of the 

 rower. The oar is a paddle, broad at both ends. Some 

 of their boats hold two perfons ; one of whom rows^ 

 and the other fiflies : but thefe kind of boats feem 

 appropriated to their chiefs. They have alfo large 

 boats capable of holding forty men. They kill birds 

 and hearts with darts made of bone, or of w^ood tipped 

 with fliarpened ftone : they ufe thefe kind of darts in 

 war, which break with the blow given by them, and, 

 leave the point in the wound. 



The manners and charadter of thefe people are what 

 we fhould expe<Sl from their neceffitous fituation, ex- 

 tremely rude and favage. The inhabitants however of 

 Unalaflika are fomewhat lefs barbarous in their manners 

 and behaviour to each other, and alfo more civil to 

 ftrangers than the natives of the other iflands; but 



even 



