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their toes and legs while asleep, and so very 

 difficult are they to awaken, that a child is 

 often seriously burnt while sleeping in the arms 

 of the mother. Excavations in the rocks, also 

 serve them for dwellings, which affords them 

 protection, from both wind and rain ; in these 

 caves they rniK without discrimination, and if 

 undisturbed enjoy the comforts of sleep. 



These people certainly, have fewer ideas of 

 building any place to shelter them from the 

 weather than,,. any savages ever discovered, for 

 those who build the bark huts, ard Very few 

 compared to the whole, General!^ speaking, 

 they prefer the ready made habitations they find 

 in the rocks, which perfectly accords with the 

 roving manner in which they live, for they 

 never stay long in one situation, and as they 

 travel in tribes together, even making the bark 

 huts would engage them more time than they 

 would be happy on one spot. 



CHILDREN. 



Among the natives of this country, neither 

 the midwife, or man- mid wife, would find any 

 employ, for females receive no assistance, and 

 women only are suffered to be present, as the 

 children are suffered to come into the world by 

 the efforts of nature, and it is by no means un- 

 common to see the woman a few hours after her 

 deli very walking about as usual. The new born 

 infant js carried about a bhort time by the mo- 

 ther on a piece of bark, till it acquires strength 



