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they wanted ; and were therefore obliged 

 to make fhift as well as they could. The 

 men wore waiftcoats and breeches of fkins. 

 Hats were not in fafhion ; and they made 

 little caps, provided with flaps before. They 

 had worffed ffockings. Their fhoes were 

 of their own making. Some of them had 

 learnt to prepare leather, and to make com- 

 mon fTioes, with heels ; but thofe who were 

 not fhoemakers by profeflion, took the 

 length of their feet, and fewed the leather 

 together accordingly ; taking a piece for the 

 fole, one for the hind-quarters, and one 

 more for the upper-leather. At that time, 

 they likewife fowed flax here, and wove 

 linen cloth. Hemp was not to be got ; 

 and they made ufe of flaxen ropes and t:fh- 

 ing tackle. The women were drefled in 

 jackets and petticoats of fkins. Their 

 beds, excepting the fheets, were fkins of 

 fever'al animals ; fuch as bears, wolves, 

 &c. 



Tea, coffee, and chocolate, which are 

 at prefent univerfally in ufe here, were then* 

 wholly unknown. Bread and butter, and 

 other iubftantial food, was what they break- 

 faffed upon ; and the above-mentioned fu- 

 perfiuities have only been lately introduced, 

 according to the account of the old Swede. 



Sugar 



f Before the Enghjh fettled here. 



