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beads they intermingle between spaces other beads, as black as 
those which I have spoken of to be white, made with jet, or cer- 
tain hard and black wood which is like unto it, which they smooth 
and make small as they list, and this hath a very good grace.... 
They esteem them more than pearls, gold or silver....But 
in Port Royal, and in the confines thereof, and towards New- 
foundland, and at ‘l'adoussac, where they have neither pearls nor 
vignols, the maids and women do make matachias, with the 
quills or bristles of the poreupine, which they dye with black, 
white, and red colours, as lively as possibly may be, for our 
scarlets have no better lustre than their red dye; but they more 
esteem the matachias which come unto them from the Armouchi- 
quois country, and they buy them very dear; and that because 
they can get no great quanity of them, by reason of the wars 
that those nations have continually one against another. There 
are brought unto them from France matachias made with small 
quills of glass mingled with tin or lead, which are trucked with 
them, and measured by the fathom, for want of an ell.” [Book 
IT, chap. xii.] 
“Our savages have no base exercise, all their sport being 
either the wars or hunting .. . or in making implements fit for 
the same, as Cesar witnesseth of the ancient Germans, or in 
dancing . . . or in passing the time in play.” Lescarbot then 
describes their bows and arrows, but as I have elsewhere 
referred to this account, it may be here omitted. “They also,” 
he says, “ made wooden mases, or clubs, in the fashion of an 
abbot’s staff, for the war, and shields which cover all their 
bodies.....As for the quivers that is the women’s trade. 
For fishing: the Armouchiquois which have hemp do make fish- 
ing lines with it, but ours that have not any manuring of the 
ground, do truck for them with Frenchmen, as also for fishing- 
hooks to bait for fish; only they make with guts bow-strings, 
and rackets, which they tieat their feet to go upon the snow a 
hunting. 
“And for as much as the necessity of life doth constrain 
them to change place often, whether it be for fishing (for every 
