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plements I formerly fent home to James Fitzge- y>>y, 
rald, Efq. then one of the Hudfon’s Bay Coim- a 
mittee. 
Among all the fpoils of the twelve tents which 
my companions plundered, only two {mall pieces 
of iron were found; one of which was about an 
inch anda half long, and three eighths of an inch 
broad, made into a woman’s knife; the other was 
barely an inch long, and a quarter of an inch wide, 
“This laft was rivetted into a piece of ivory, fo as 
to form a man’s knife, known in Hudfon’s Bay 
by the name of Mokeaioggan, and is the only in- 
ftrument ufed by them in fhaping all their wood- 
work. 
Thofe people had a fine and numerous breed of 
dogs, with fharp erect ears, fharp nofes, bufhy 
tails, &c. exaétly like thofe feen among the Ef- 
quimaux in Hudfon’s Bay and Straits. They were 
all tethered to ftones, to prevent them, as I fup- 
pofe, from eating the fifh that were {pread all over 
the rocks to dry. I do not recollect that my 
companions killed or hurt one of thofe animals ; 
but after we had left the tents, they often wifh- 
ed they had taken fome of thofe fine dogs with 
them. 
Though the drefs, canoes, utenfils, and many 
other articles belonging to thefe people, are very 
fimilar to thofe of Hudfon’s Bay, yct there is one 
cuflom that prevails among them—namely, that 
of the men having all the hair of their heads pull- 
ed out by the roots—which pronounces them to 
be 
