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fhell, for a low, open, roundiih hut; they join the neighbouring progress 



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fhrubs together, and cover the whole with fome wifps of dry grafs, 

 and here and there a few pieces of feals-fkin are tied over j one 



; circumference, is left open for a door. 



fifth 



lixth of the whol 



and the fire place ; their utenfils and furniture, which we had an 

 opportunity of obferving, conlifted of a baiket, a kind of mat-fatchel, 

 a bone- hook, fixed to a long flick of a light kind of wood, for 

 difengaging the fhell-fifh from the rocks, a rude bow and fome ar- 

 rows. Their canoes are made of bark, which is doubled round a pli- 

 ant piece of wood, by way of gunwale, and a few flicks, of about the 

 thicknefs of half an inch, are bent on the whole infide of the ca- 



clofe to one another, fo 



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form a kind of ftrong deck, both 



for expanding the whole frame of the canoe, and preventing its bot- 

 tom from being broken by walking on k^ m one part of thefe poor 

 embarkations, they lay up a little heap of foil, ai 



a conftant fi 



1, and on it they keep 

 Their food, befides the above- 

 tioned feals, are fhell-fifli, which they broil and devour ; they 



even in fu 



fhivering, and appeared much afi'eded 



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looked at the fhip and all its parts 



the cold : they 



th a ilupidity and indolence 



which we had not h 

 South Seas, had all : 



erto obferved 

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any of th 



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prefTed hardly any defires or wifhes 



pofTefs any thing which we 



offered, and thought it might become defirabl 



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