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Manners. 



Hemp, 



J A P A N. 



perfon falls fick, they cut long flips of the wood, and tie them 

 round the head and arms of the patient. 



Notwithstanding the rude appeararxe of thefe people, 

 they are prudent and civilized in their manners, and among 

 Grangers pay them the comphment of putting on their heft 

 cloaths. 



They are a very indolent race ; never cultivate the ground, 

 hut pafs much of their time on the water in canoes, which they 

 call praos, cut out of the trunk of fome great tree, raifed on the 

 fide with planks. In thefe they go to the chace of feals, which 

 they flioot with arrows, or of whales, which they harpoon. 

 They befide catch other filhes with feines, in the manner done 

 in Europe. Several objects of chace are mentioned. Birds they 

 catch in fnares ; and Ihoot with arrows elks, roes, ftags, bears, 

 and other animals unknown to the Dutch navigators. Befides 

 the weapons I have mentioned, they wear a fhort cutlafs made 

 of iron, which they procure from the Japanefe, 



Hemp grows wild in the country, the women fpin it, I fup- 

 pofe by fplitting it firft ; they then hold one end between their 

 teeth, and turn and twift it into thread on a diftaff. 



The natives exchange with the 'Japanefe the lard and oil of 

 whales and fiQies, the dried tongues of whales, furs, and fea- 

 thers of eagles, for winging of arrows. The people of Japan 

 pay them an annual vifit, and bring in return rice, fugar, filken 

 cloaths in the Japat^efe falhion, fmoaking-pipes, tobacco, and 

 varniflied cups and plates. The J^/)^;?^^ feem to have intro- 

 duced civilization among thefe people by their intercoiirfe with 



them. 



