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ihould not be expofcd to wild beafts ; or perhaps this might have 

 been done to avoid the flench of the deceafed, when putrefaction 

 might commence. 



We were not able to underftand one of their regulations, as 

 they permitted our people to enter alL their houfes, except that 

 of their ruler ; and yet when we had broken through this eti- 

 quette, we could not obferve any thing different between the 

 palace, and the other huts. 



It was impoffible for us to underfland their language, for 

 which reafon we had no intercourfe but by figns, and therefore 

 both parties often continued in a total ignorance of each other's 

 meaning : we obferved however that they pronounced our words 

 with great eafe f . 



Their arms are chiefly arrows pointed with flint, and fome of 

 them with copper or iron ? , which we underftood were procured 

 from the N. and one of thefe was thus marked Q. Thefe ar- 

 rows are carried in quivers of wood or bone, and hang from their 

 wiifr. or neck. 



_ f From hence it may be inferred, that thefe Indians pronounce gnt- 

 turally, as all the nation's of Europe indeed do, except the Engliih, 

 French, and great part of Italy. 



s Such are to be feen at Sir Afhton Lever's Mufeum from K. George's 

 found N. Lat. 50. which confirms the journal in their being brought 

 from the North. I fhould conceive that the copper and iron here men- 

 tioned mult have originally been bartered at our forts in Hudfon's Bay, 

 with the travelling hordes of Indians who refort there at ftated times. 

 Some of our own people are alfo very enterprizing in their excurfions, 

 as one of them within thefe few years hath been as far as N. Lat. 72. 

 W. Long, from Fort Churchill 24. where he faw an open fea. — In the 

 fame noble Mufeum is a moil particular bow from the W. coaft of Ame- 

 rica N. Lat. 50. which exactly, refembles one from the Labradore 

 Coaft. 



But 



