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broader than hoopes : and instead boords, they use the barkes 

 of Birch trees, which they sew very artificially and close to- 

 gether, and then overlay the seams with Turpentine, as Pitch 

 is used on the Seams of Ships and Boats. And in like 

 manner they use to sew the barkes of Spruise and Firre 

 trees, round and deepe in proportion like a Brasse kettle, 

 to boyle their meat in, as it hath been well approved by 

 divers men : but most especially to my certaine knowledge, 

 by three Mariners of a Ship of Tapson, in the county of 

 Devon : which Ship riding there at anchor neere by mee, at 

 the Harbour called Heartsease, on the North side of Trinity 

 Bay, and being robbed in the night, by the Savages, of their 

 apparell, and divers other provisions, did the next day seeke 

 after them, and happen to come suddenly where they had 

 set up three Tents, and were feasting, having three such 

 Cannowes by them, and three pots made of such rinds of 

 trees, standing each of them on three stones boyljng, with 

 twelve Fowles in each of them, every Fowl as big as a 

 widgeon, and some so big as a Ducke : they had also many 

 such pots, so sewed and fashioned like leather Buckets, that 

 are used for quenching of fire, and those were full of the 

 yolkes of Egges, that they had taken and boyled hard, and 

 so dryed small as it had been powder Sugar, which the 

 Savages used in their Broth, as sugar is often used in 

 some meates. They had great store of the skins of Deers, 

 Beavers, Beares, Seales, Otters, and divers other fine skins, 

 which were excellent well dressed : as also great store of 

 several sorts of flesh dryed, and by shooting off a Musket 

 towards them, they all ran away naked, without any apparell, 

 but onely some of them had their hats on their heads which 

 were made of seale skinnes, in fashion like our hats, sewed 

 handsomely, with narrow bands about them set round with 



