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as to be unable to get upou iier legs. 1 shot a bird 

 called a ladv. 



Friday, October 12^1770. Early in the mornmg, 

 I went to pay a visit to the Indians: but of all the 

 people I ever yet heard of, the Estiuimaux, I think, 

 are the most uncleanlv. Thev even exceed the 

 accounts which I have read of the Hottentots: for 

 they not only eat the guts of an animal; but, with 

 a still higher gout for delicacies of this kind, they 

 devour even the contents! Their tent was highly 

 impregnated with the effluvia of such savoury 

 dainties. At the farther end, a little raised from 

 the ground, on pieces of boards, were abundance 

 of deer-skins and garments, on which they both 

 sat and slept ; the rest was well filled with vessels 

 for eating and drinking; bags of seals' oil, part 

 of the carcase of a seal recently killed; fat, guts, 

 fish; and a great variety of other good things, all 

 lying in glorious confusion; on which their dogs 

 and themselves fed promiscuously! Tlie whole 

 was nauseous in the highest degree, and I was 

 obliged to quit the place without much reluctance. 

 Afterwards, I walked upon the cape land; where 

 I killed a pair of eider ducks, a grouse, and a 

 ptharmakin. 



Saturdftj/, Orfober 13, 1770. T paid my friends 

 anothei- visit; Ickcongogue (the youngest wife) 

 was dressing a green seal skin, wliidi li.-ul lain in 

 oil and filth some days, and feeding her infant 

 daughter with the scrapings: as a most delicious 

 morsel. She sometimes indnlged <h<' child with 

 the tail of a raw scul])in to suck: bii1 the fish fre- 



