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and eihbroidôi- Roe-Buck Skins ; they knit Girdles and Garters 

 with the Wool of the Buffaloes. 



As for the Men, they glory in their Idlenefs, and in Reality 



Works of the ^ P^f^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ à.om^ no- 

 yj^ thing, in the Perfuafion that daily Labour 



difgraces a Man, and is only the Duty of 

 the Women. Man, they fay, is only made for War, Hunting, 

 and Fifhing. Neverthelefs, it belongs to them to make ail Things 

 necelfary for thefe three Exercifes : Therefore, making Arms, 

 Nets, and all the Equipage of the Hunters and Fifhers, chiefly 

 belong to them, as well as the Canoes, and their Rigging, 

 the Ra^ets, or Snow Shoes, the building and repairing the 

 Cabins, but they often oblige the Women to aflill them. The 

 Chriftians employ themfelves fomething more, but they only 

 do it by Way of Penance. 



Thefe People, before we had furnifhed them with Hatchets, 

 neir Tools ^^^^^ Tools, were greatly embarra/Ted 



to cut down their Trees, and fit them for 

 life. They burnt them at the Foot, and to fplit and cut them, 

 they ufed Hatchets made of Flints, which did not break, but 

 took up a great deal of Time to fharpen. To fix them in the 

 Handle, they cut off the Head of a young Tree, and as if they 

 would have grafted it, they made a Notch in it, in which 

 they thrufl: the Head of the Hatchet. After fome Time, 

 the Tree, by growing together, kept the Hatchet fo fixed that it 

 could not come out ; then they cut the Tree to fuch a Length as , 

 they would have the Handle. 



Their Villages have generally no regular Form. The greatell 

 Th Form ofth ^^^^ antient Relations reprefent them 



e otmoj- e ^ round Form, and perhaps their Authors 

 ytuages. ^^^^ g^^^^ ^^^^ 



imagine you fee. Madam, a Heap of Cabins without Order, 

 or being fet on a Line : Some like Cart-Houfes, others like 

 Tunnels built of Bark, fupported by fome Polls, fometimes 

 plaiUcred on the Outfide with Mud, in a coarfe Manner : In a 

 Word, built with lefs Art, Neatnefs, and Solidity, than the 

 Cabins of the Beavers. Thefe Cabins are about fifteen or twenty 

 Feet in Breadth, and fometimes a hundred in Length : Then they 

 Contain feveral Fires, for a Fire never takes up more than 30 Feet. 



When the Floor is not fufficient for all the Inhabitants to 

 lleep on, the young People lay on a wide Bench, or a Kind of 

 Stage, about five or fix Feet high, that runs the whole Length of 

 the Cabin. The Furniture and the Provifions are over this, 

 placed on Pieces of Wood put acrofs under the Roof. For the 

 moft Part, there is before the Door a Sort of Porch, where the 

 young People fleep in the Summer, and which ferves for a 

 Wood-Houfe in the Winter. The Doors are nothing but 



Bark, 



