28 RELICS OF THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA—PIERS. 
son) the pictures that be made of St. John Baptist. But in 
winter, they make good beaver sleeves, tied behind, which keep 
them very warm....Our savages in the winter, going to sea, 
ora hunting, do use great and high stockings, like to our boot- 
hosen ; which they tie to their girdles, and at the sides outward, 
there is a great number of points without taggs ... Besides 
these long stockings, our savages do use shoes, which they call 
mekezin, which they fashion very properly, but they cannot 
dure long, especially when they go into watry places, because 
they be not curried nor hardened, but only made after the 
manner of buff, which is the hide of an ellan....As for the 
head attire, none of the savages have any, unless it be that some 
of the hither lands truck their skins with Frenchmen for hats 
and caps; but rather both men and women wear their hairs 
flittering over their shoulders, neither bound nor tied, except 
that the men do truss them upon the crown of the head, some 
four fingers length, with a leather lace, which they let hang 
down behind.” [Book II, chap. ix.] 
Describing the complexion of the savages, Lescarbot says: 
“ They are all of an olive colour, or rather tawny colour, like to 
the Spaniards, not that they be so born, but being the most part 
of the time naked, they grease their bodies, and do anoint them 
sometimes with oil, for to defend them from the flies, which are 
very troublesome.....All they which I have seen have black 
hairs, some excepted which have Abraham colour hairs ; but of 
flaxen colour I have seen none, and less of red.” [Book I, 
chap. x.] 
The Indians “have matachias, hanging at their ears, and 
about their necks, bodies, arms, and legs. “The Brasilians, 
Floridians, and Armouchiquois, do make carkenets and bracelets 
(called bou-re in Brasil, and by ours matachias) of the shells of 
those great sea cockles, which be called wignols, like unto snails, 
which they break and gather up in a thousand pieces, then do 
smooth them upon a hot stone, until they do make them very 
small, and having pierced them, they make them beads with 
them, like unto that which we call porcelain. Among those 
