28 RELICS OF THE STONE AGE IX NOVA SCOTIA PIERS. 



son) the pictures that be made of St. John Baptist. But in 

 winter, they make good beaver sleeve?, tied behind, which keep 

 them very warm .... Our savages in the winter, going to sea, 

 or a hunting, do use great and high stockings, like to our boot- 

 hosen ; which they tie to their girdles, and at the sides outward, 

 there is a great number of points without taggs ...Besides 

 these long stockings, our savages do use shoes, which they call 

 mekezin, which they fashion very properly, but they cannot 

 dure long, especially when they go into watry places, because 

 they be not curried nor hardened, but only made after the 

 manner of buff, which is the hide of an ellan .... As for the 

 head attire, none of the savages have any, unless it be that some 

 of the hither lands truck their skins with Frenchmen for hats 

 and caps ; but rather both men and women wear their hairs 

 flittering over their shoulders, neither bound nor tied, except 

 that the men do truss them upon the crown of the head, some 

 four fingers length, with a leather lace, which they let hang 

 down behind." [Book II, chap, ix.] 



Describing the complexion of the savages, Lescarbot says: 

 " They are all of an olive colour, or rather tawny colour, like to 

 the Spaniards, not that they be so born, but being the most part 

 of the time naked, they grease their bodies, and do anoint them 

 sometimes with oil, for to defend them from the flies, which are 

 very troublesome. .. .,. All they which I have seen have black 

 hairs, some excepted which have Abraham colour hairs ; but of 

 flaxen colour I have seen none, and less of red." [Book II, 

 chap, x.] 



The Indians " have matachias, hanging at their ears, and 

 about their necks, bodies, arms, and legs. The Brasilians, 

 Floridians, and Armouchiquois, do make carkenets and bracelets 

 (called bow-re in Brasil, and by ours matachias) of the shells of 

 those great sea cockles, which be called vignols, like unto snails 

 which they break and gather up in a thousand pieces, then do 

 smooth them upon a hot stone, until they do make them very 

 small, and having pierced them, they make them beads with 

 them, like unto that which we call porcelain. Among those 



