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ORIGIN on the American continent. Our Pejerais therefore, in one or 



OF SOCI- 

 ETIES. 



the other cafe, ^o to the continent, or to the Eaftern regions of 



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this ereat clufter of numerous iiles. This however, proves that 

 they change their abode, and tranfport themfelves to very diftant 

 aces, in order to procure their food, and Hkewife implies that 

 they are much diftrelTed for the means of procuring it; for they 



would certainly not remove, if they could provide at ail times and 

 feafons a fufficiency at the place of their abode. 

 obferve that the Fejferals 



V/e did not 



ever 



d the berries of a kind of 



ARBUTUS, vv^hich, in fome places, is found in great abundance ^ 



oiled that they made ufe of 





ny 



ther 



ve 



ables by 



and likewife eat a kind of 



w^ay of food, though it is probable that they do not entirely negled, 

 them. On the contrary, the inhabitants of Greenland gather 

 feveral kinds of berries to live upon, 

 fea-weed. 



The Pefferais Vv^hom we faw, were without any other covering 

 than that of a fmall piece of feal-ilcin, or a part of a guanacoe-fkin, 



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hunp- over their backs, and feemed not the leafl concerned upon 



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expofmg their genitals 3 the women had only a piece of white birds 



i]iin about fix inches fqua 

 of modeilv; nor was th 



hardly fufficient to be called a badge 



univerfaL for fome of them 



uft 



om 



feen without 



The Greenlander 



the contrary 



are 



all 



well provided with feal-ll^ins, rein-deer-furrs and fkins of water- 



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birds ; 



