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they wanted ; and were therefore obliged 

 to make fhift as well as they could. The 

 men v/ore wallicoats and breeches of fkins. 

 Hats were not in fafhion ; and they made 

 little caps, provided with flaps before. They 

 had worfted ftockings. Their moes were 

 of their own making. Some of them had 

 learnt to prepare leather, and to make com- 

 mon moes, with heels ; but thofe who were 

 not fhoemakers by profeffion, took the 

 length of their feet, and fewed the leather 

 together accordingly ; taking a piece for the 

 fole, one for the hind-quarters, and one 

 more for the upper-leather. At that time, 

 they likewife fowed flax here, and wove 

 linen cloth. Hemp was not to be got ,- 

 and they made ufe of flaxen ropes and tim- 

 ing tackle. The women were drefled in 

 jackets and petticoats of fkins. Their 

 beds, excepting the meets, were flcins of 

 feveral animals -, fuch as bears, wolves, 

 &c. 



Tea, coffee, and chocolate, which are 

 at prefent univerfally in ufe here, were then* 

 wholly unknown. Bread and butter, and 

 other fubftantial food, was what they break- 

 fafted upon ; and the above-mentioned fu- 

 perrluities have only been lately introduced, 

 according to the account of the old Swede. 



Sugar 



* Before the EngUJb fettled here. 



