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lie was lining. And they colour both their Darts and their Graves 

 with a red colour which they vse in colouring themselves." 



In Schouten's Voyage, about thirty years later, it is men- 

 tioned that at Port Desire, upon the highest part of the hills, 

 they 



" Found some burying places, which were heapes of stones, and we 

 not knowing what that meant, pulled the stones off from one of them, 

 and vnder them found men's bones of tenne and eleven feet long : 

 they buried the dead vpon the top of the hils, flat on the ground, and 

 cover them also with stones, which keeps them from being devoured by 

 beasts or birds." 



Wood relates that, on his visit to Port St. Julian in 1670, 



in walking inland, he 



" Met seven Savages who came running down the Hill to us, making several 

 Signs for us to go back again with much Eoaring and Noise, yet did 

 not offer to draw their Arrows : But one of them who was an old Man, 

 came nearer to us than the rest, and made also Signs we should depart, 

 to whom I threw a Knife, a Bottle of Brandy, and a Neckcloth to pacify 

 him ; but, seeing him persist in the same Signs as before, and that the 

 Savageness of the People seemed to be incorrigible, we returned on 

 Board again." 



He then adds — • 



" As far as I could observe by these People, they have no Houses 

 nor Habitation, but wander from Place to Place to seek their Food, 

 which consists mostly in Seals and Limpids, with some Fowls and Deer. 

 Having spent the Day in the said Manner, they return at Night, and put 

 themselves behind some Bush, where they may make a small Fire, I 

 suppose on purpose, because they should not be discovered afar off by 

 Night ; and they lie upon the cold Earth, without any other Canopy 

 but Heaven. As for the Apparel of these Savages, they have no other 

 but Mantles made of Deer-Skins sewed together, wherein they wrap 

 themselves up, and need no other Covering, they being by Nature very 

 hardy, and of an Olive Complexion, as all the Americans are, in Conform- 

 ity to most of whom, these also paint their Faces and Bodies with many 

 Colours. It happen'd that some of our Men being on Shoar, August 

 the 1 6th, on the East-Side, in order to fill Water, two of them at a 



