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ORIGIN in their improvements ^ it now bscomes proper to enter into ^t 



OF soci- 



JETIES. 



detailed defcription of the part 



relati 



to th 



food- 



and population, and the various principles, manners, regulations; 

 habits, and biafs of mind peculiar to each of the feveral tribes 

 with' which we became acquainted- 



We obferved in general, that the chief occupation of all the 



nations, which live towards the extremities of our globe, con* 

 fills in procuring their fub'liftence ; all their endeavours, contri* 



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vances and ingenuity, center in this great and neceifary objed : 

 cloathing, habitation, fecurity, liberty, property, and every other 

 concern muft give way to the firft. 



If we comp 



th 



fituat 



of' th© inhab 



of Tierra del 



Fuego, and of the EJki?nauXy "or Greenlanders, every circumftance 

 proves the latter fuperior to the inhabitants of the South extremity 

 of America, though thefe have, in many refpedls, the advantage of. 



them in regard to the gifts which 



country. 



The Greenlanders and E/kimaux 



nature has befl'owed on their 



can procure a variety of food 



chiefly of the animal kind, from land . and fea anim-als. 



They 



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hunt equally rein dears and whales ; kill feals and fea fowl, and 

 likcwife catch fiili, efpecially falmori : but the wretched Pejerai 

 is obliged to fubfiil chiefly on mufclesand others fhell fifh, v/hich , 

 he colleds by means of a bone hook fixed on a long octangular pole, 



from the bottom of the 



fea 



and from the 



ks under, water 



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