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they go, to the beat of drum; and bearing their wea- 

 pons of war ; but the guefls make their appearance in 

 the very fame drefs in which they go forth to battle. 

 As foon as they approach the fea-coaft, the perfons 

 who give the entertainment jump into the water, breaft- 

 high, and drag as many baidars and baidarks as they 

 can to the more ; then each takes one of the guelts on 

 his back, and runs with him to the firft place prepared 

 for the entertainment and the games ; there they fquat 

 down in due order. And now all are filent, till they 

 have fufficiently eaten and drunk. Their hrffc hofpita- 

 ble mark of honour, is the giving of cold water all 

 round ; then little youths bear about the eatables, which 

 con lift partly in a mifh-maih of the fat of the above- 

 mentioned fea- animals, partly in the berries before de- 

 fcribed, fometimes mixed, fometimes unmixed. Then 

 other dilhes are ferved round, of dried fifh, called by 

 them yukol ; of flefh of beafts and birds ; of all forts 

 always the beft that can be procured. They know no- 

 thing of fait. Of all thefe the hoft muft firft eat and 

 drink, otherwife the guefts would not take of them ; 

 from whence we may conclude that at times they may 

 "be poifoned. The hoft then paffes the difh to the gueft 

 that fits next him ; who, after taking what he pleafes, 

 hands it to his neighbour, and fo on to the laft. What 

 then remains is brought back to the firft, who lays it 

 by, in order that afterwards when the time for parting 

 comes, each of the guefls may take a portion of it 

 away with him. When they have done eating, they 

 converfe for fome time, and then begin to play on 

 drums and other fmall inftruments ; fome at the fame 

 time put on a peculiar kind of wooden* maiks, varioufly 



d 4 painted, 



