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them arc not half the above fize, and feldom exceed four '777. 

 feet in height ; being, befides, indifferently bulk, though '"^'^' 

 proof againft wind and rain. 



No other furniture is to be feen in them, than a few fmall 

 bafkets or bag?, in which rhey put their fifliing-hooks, and 

 c;her trifles; and they fit down in the middle round a fmall 

 iire, where they alfo probably fleep, without any other co- 

 vering than what they wear in the day, or perhaps without 

 that ; as fuch confined places mufl be very warm, though 

 inhabited but by a few pcrfons. 



They live chiefly by fifhing, making ufe either of nets of 

 different kinds, or of wooden lifh- hooks pointed with bone; 

 but fo oddly made, that a flranger is at a lofs to know how 

 they can anfwer fuch a purpofe. It alfo appears, that they 

 remove their habitations fiom one place to another when 

 the fiHi grow fcarce, or for fome other reafon ; for we found 

 houfes now built in feveral parts, where there had been 

 none when we were here during our laft voyage, and even 

 thefe have been already deferted. 



Their boats are well built, of planks raifed upon each 

 other, and fattened with ftrong withes, which alfo bind a 

 long narrow piece on the outfide of the feams to prevent 

 their leaking. Some are fifty feet long, and fo broad as to 

 be able to fail without an outrigger ; but the fmaller fort 

 commonly have oncj and they often fatten two together by 

 rafters, which we then call a double canoe. They carry 

 from five to thirty men or more ; and have often a large 

 head ingenioufly carved, and painted with a figure at the 

 point, which leems intended to reprefent a man, with his 

 features diitorted by rage. Their paddles are about four 

 or five feet long, narrow, and pointed ; with which, when 



they 



