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grafs. They are fometimes feen in pellices of beavor, 

 fox or bear fur, of bird's feathers, the Ikins of evrafties, 

 tarbagans, otters, fables, hares, reindeer, gluttons, 

 and lynxes. A fort of upper garment they make of 

 the entrails of the porpois, the feal, and the whale. 



On the head they wear .hats made of pine-roots or 

 grafs matted, or inftead of caps a piece of wood arched 

 and hollowed out. In catching the marine animals 

 they ufe arrows which they caft from a wooden board, 

 and in war they employ the bow and the dart pointed 

 with iron, copper, bones, or Hone. They have irort 

 hatchets of a peculiar conitruclion ; namely, fmall 

 rude pieces of iron : alfo pipes, knives of iron and of 

 bone ; iron needles, which, till our arrival, were made 

 by the women. Inftead of thread they ufe the dried 

 finews of animals. Their vefTels are of wood, and of 

 the horn of the wild fheep, or of clay and hollowed 

 Hone ; their large and fmall baidars, or canoes, inftead 

 of being planked, have their ribs covered with leather. 

 In thefe they go out to angle on the fea, with hooks of 

 bone, faftened to the end of a long ltring of dried fea- 

 cabbage ; the ftalk of the fea-cabbage being frequently 

 forty fathom in length, and upwards. In the rivers 

 they take the rim by means of a pole with a kind of a 

 net at the end of it, in the opening whereof is a point 

 of bone, iron, or ftone, faftened to the wood of the fpear 

 by fmews. The red-fim [falmo alpinus] that abound 

 in the bays and bites of the fea, they ftrike dead in a 

 moment as foon as ever they put their heads above wa- 

 ter. Their manner of producing fire is by rubbing 

 two fticks together ; and inftead of lamps they have 

 earthen vefTels, wherein they lay a wick of twifted hay, 



d 3 which 



