PRINCE WILLIAM’S SOUND. 
a people who live far inland, between the little and the great lakes Ouinepique. On 
the contrary, the inhabitants of Nootka in their dulnefs refemble ‘the Afinibouels, 
who live on the weftern fide * : and thefe two nations may have been derived from 
a common ftock with the maritime tribes whom we have had occafion to mention. 
The fkins of the natives of this found were fwarthy, poffibly from going often 
naked ; for the fkins of many of the women, and the children, were white, but 
pallid. Many of the women were diftinguifhable from the men by the delicacy of 
their features, which was far from the cafe with thofe of Nootka. 
In thefe parts, within the diftance of ten degrees, is a change of both drefs and 
manners. The cloak and mantle are here changed for a clofe habit, made of the 
fkins of different beafts, ufually with the hair outwards ; or of the fkins of birds, 
with only the down remaining ; fome with a cape, others with a hood: over 
which, in rainy weather, is worn a garment like a carter’s frock, with large fleeves, 
and tight round the neck, made of the inteftines probably of the whale, and as 
fine as gold-beater’s leaf. On the hands are always worn mittens, made of the 
paws of a bear ; and the legs are covered with hofe, reaching to midway the thigh. 
The head is generally bare ; but thofe who wear any thing, ufe the high truncated 
conic bonnet, like the people of Nootka +. In this place only was obferved the 
Calumet ; a ftick about three feet long, with large feathers, or the wings of birds, 
tied to it. This was held up as a fign of peace. 
I leave the reader to amufe himfelf in the Voyage, by the account of the ftrange 
cuftom of the natives in cutting through their under lip, and giving themfelves 
the monftrous appearance of two mouths {: in the orifice they place a bit of 
bone or fhell by way of ornament. This cuftom extends to the diftant Mo/quitos, 
and even to the Brafjians §, but feems unknown in other parts of America.—I 
endeavour to confine myfelf to paflages which may lead to trace the origin of 
the people. Thefe paint their faces, and puncture or tattow their chins. They 
are moft remarkably clean in their food, and in their manner of eating it, and even 
in the keeping of their bowls and veffels. In their perfons they are equally neat 
and decent, and free from greafe or dirt ||: in this they feem an exception to all 
other favages. 
They have two kinds of boats ; one large, open, and capable of containing 
above twenty people. It is made of the fkins of marine animals, diftended on 
ribs of wood, like the witilia navigia of the Britons, at the time in which they 
were on a level with thefe poor Americans ; or like the woman’s boat of the Green- 
landers and Efkimaux. The canoes are exaétly of the fame conftruction with thofe 
of the latter; and the difference of both is very trivial. ‘The canoes of thefe 
* Dobbs, 24. + Voyage, ii. 368, 369. t Same, 369, tab. 46, 47. § Dampier, is 32,5 
de Bry. Brajil, 165. | Voyage, lie 374+ 
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