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‘that part of the world where I was moft inclined 
. nofe; and when their nofes bleed by accident, | 
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or fix of his ftrapping wives to work to loufe 
their hairy deer-fkin fhifts, the produce of which 
being always very confiderable, he eagerly re- 
ceived with both hands, and licked them in as 
faft, and with as good a grace, as any European 
epicure would the mites in a cheefe. He often — 
aflured me that fuch amufement was not only — 
very pleafing, but that the objects of the fearch — 
were very good; for which I gave him credit, — 
telling him at the fame time, that though J en- — 
deavoured to habituate myfelf to every other part 
of their diet, yet as I was but a fojourner 
among them, I kad no inclination to accuflom | 
myfelf to fuch dainties as I could not procure in | 
to refide. 
The Southern Indians and Efquimaux are | 
equally fond of thofe vermin, which are fo de. 
teftable in the eyes of an European; nay, che 
latter have many other dainties of a fimilar kind) 
for befide making ufe of train-oil as a cordial and | 
as fauce to their meat, I have frequently feen’ 
them eat a whole handful of maggots that were’ 
produced in meat by fly-blows. It is their con-/ 
fiant cuftom to eat the filth that comes from the 
they always lick the blood into their mouths, and i 
{wallow it. 
The track of land inhabited by the Nortlianhi 
Indians is very extenfive, reaching from the fifty-| 
hinth to the fixty-eighth degree of North lati. 
tude; 
