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We find the following information regarding clothing. At Santa 
Lucia, Dickenson writes: 
In a little time some raw deer skins were brought in, and given to my wife and 
negro woman, and to us men, such as the Indians wear, being a piece of plaitwork of 
straws, wroughl of divers colours, and of a triangular figure, with a belt of four fingers 
broad of the same, wrought together, which goes about the waist; and the angle of the 
other having a thing to it coming between the legs; and strings to the end of the belt, 
all three meeting together, are fastened behind with a horse tail, or a bunch of silk 
grass, exactly resembling it, of a flaxen colour; this being all the apparel or covering 
that the men wear. 1 
This article of male attire is, of course, the breechclout. It is 
described less at length as worn by the two Hobe Indians who first 
met our travelers after their shipwreck. Dickenson adds that "they 
had their hair tied in a roll behind, in which stuck two bones, shaped 
one like a broad arrow, the other like a spearhead." 2 
The town of Hobe is described as "being little wigwams made of 
small poles stuck in the ground, which they bent one to another, 
making an arch, and covering them with thatch of small palmetto 
leaves." 3 The chief's house was "about a man's height to the top," 
and within was a platform bed "made with sticks, about a foot 
high, covered with a mat." 3 The chief's house hi Santa Lucia "was 
about forty feet long, and twenty-five feet wide, covered with 
palmetto leaves, both top and sides. There was a range of cabins 
[beds] on one side and two ends; at the entering on one side of the 
house, a passage was made of benches on each side, leading to the 
cabins. " 4 
The chief of Hobe, to make a rude wind break, ''got some stakes 
and stuck them in a row joining to his wigwam, and tied some sticks, 
whereon were small palmettoes tied, and fastened them to the stakes 
about three feet high, and laid two or three mats, made of reeds, 
down for shelter." 5 
The floors of the houses were the bare earth, covered, however, 
with filth and vermin. 6 
The beds, as has been noticed, were provided with mats, and 
Dickenson mentions among certain articles presented to the chief 
of Santa Lucia "some plaited balls stuffed with moss to lay their 
heads on instead of pillows." 7 
Pots, including "a deep round bowl," 8 and baskets are mentioned, 
also a "bag made of grass." 9 Cooked fish was served to the white 
people on palmetto leaves. Gourds were also used. 
1 Dickenson, Narrative, pp. 33-34. 6 Ibid., p. 34. 
» Ibid., pp. 9-10 > Ibid., p. 37. 
• Ibid., p. 17. s ibid., p. 35. 
'Ibid., p. 33. » Ibid., p. 54. 
'Ibid., p. 18. 
