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But What they chiefly value is iron, and particularly knives 

 or hoops of old barrels; r they alfo readily barter for bugles, 

 whilft they rejected both provifions or any article of drefs. They 

 pretended however that they fometimes approved the former, in 

 order to procure our efteem ; but foon after they had accepted 

 any fort of meat, we obferved that they fet it afide, as of no 

 value. At laft indeed they took kindly to our bifcuits, and really 

 -eat them. 



Amongfr. thefe Indians there was one who had more familiar 

 intercourfe with us than all the reft, fitting down with us in fight 

 of his countrymen. 



They ufed tobacco, which they fmoaked in fmall wooden 

 •pipes, in form of a trumpet, and procured from little gardens 

 where they had planted it H 



They chiefly hunt deer, cibulos, fea^wolves, and otters, nor 

 oid we obferve that they purfued any others. The only birds we 

 met wkh on this part of the coafl: were daws, hawks, very 

 fmall paroquets, ducks, and gulls ; there were alfo fome par- 

 rots with red feet, bills, and breafts, like lories both in their 

 heads and flight. 



The fifh on that coaft are chiefly fardines, pejerey and cod ; 

 of which they only bring home as much as will fatisfy the wants 

 of the day. 



We tried to find if they had ever feen other ftrangers, or mips 

 than our own, but though we took great pains to inform ourfelves 

 on this head, we never could perfectly comprehend what they 

 faid ; upon the whole we conceived that we were the only foreigners 

 who had ever vifited that part of the coafl:. 



h It need fcarcely be obferved that tobacco is an indigenous plant in 

 N. America, as it is alfo of Aria. 



5 In this and other inftances where I do not know the animal alluded 

 to, I mall give the JournalifTs name. 



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