126" 



seeds, together with lizards and other reptiles supply them 

 with food dining some part of the year. At other linics they 

 subsist by fishing, 2 Robertson, 79- The North Americans 

 frequently eat their meat and fish raw. liearne, 315. 3l6. 

 and the most disgusting vermin, 325. 



I'heir habitations are miserable huts intended merely for 

 shelter, without any view to convenience ; the doors so low 

 that it is necessary to creep on the hands and feet in order to 

 enter them, with one large hole in the middle to let out 

 the smoke. Yet some are so large as to contain 80 or 100 

 persons, occupied by different families, which dwell together 

 without any screen or partition. In the hot climates they 

 form sheds of the branches and leaves of trees, and in the 

 rainy season retire to covers formed by the hand of nature, 

 or hollowed out by their own industry. 2 Roberts. 120", 127. 



Their dress, the skins of animals in the colder climates, 

 Hearne, 324, in the warmer none at all ; but they bedaub 

 themselves with various ointments to save themselves from 

 the bites of insects. 2 Roberts. 124. 



In the warmer climates poli/gamij is practised, but in the 

 colder, where food is difficultly procured, they content them- 

 selves with one wife, and the union is easily dissolved. The 

 condition of women is so grievous, and their depression so 

 complete, that servitude is a name too mild to describe their 

 wretched state, 2 Roberts. 73, 74. Hearne, 89, 90, 310, 



Yet 



