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doors to which they make ufe of a circular hole, jufr. large 

 enough for their bodies to pafs through. The floors of thefe 

 huts are perfectly fmooth and clean, with a fquare hole q two 

 feet deep in the centre, in which they make their fire, and round 

 which they are continually warming themfelves, on account of 

 the great cold. Such habitations alfo fecure them, when not em- 

 ployed out of doors, from the wind and noxious animals. 



The men however do not wear any covering, except the cold is 

 intenfe, when indeed they put upon their moulders the fkins of 

 fea-wolves, otters, deer, or other animals : many of them alfo 

 have round their heads r fweet-fmelling herbs. They likewife 

 wear their hair either difhevelled over their moulders, or other - 

 wife en caflanna *. 



In the flaps of their ears they have rings like thofe at the end 

 of a mufquet c . 



They bind their loins and legs quite down to the ancles, very 

 clofely, with {trips of hide or thread. 



They paint their face, and greater part of their body, regularly 

 either with a black or blue u colour. 



Their arms are covered with circles of fmall points in the 

 fame manner that -common people in Spain often paint mips and 

 anchors. 



1 Oyo or eye literally* 



r Una rueda, literally a garland in the form of a wheel'. 



s - The Spaniards apply caftanna to a particular method of dreffing 

 the hair— peinado en. cajlanna> 1/teraily {ignifies, hair drclicd to referable 

 a cheihat tree. 



1 I am informed by a gentleman long refrdent in Spain, that it is not 

 uniufoal to have rings fo placed, and that they are of ufe to prevent the 

 knapfack from falling off. 



a Azarcon. 



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