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grow up to their eyd, and are fo thick, that it is 

 with difficulty the features of their faces are to be 

 diftinguilhed. They havelikewife fomething very 

 frightful in their air and mien, fmall fiery eyes, 

 large and very ugly teeth, hair commonly black, 

 fometimes fair, always very much in diforder, and 

 their whole external appearance extremely brutifh. 

 Their manners and character do not bcly the defor- 

 mity of their phifiognomy ; they are fierce, favage, 

 fufpicious, turbulent, and have a conftant propen- 

 fity to do mifchief to Grangers, who ought to be 

 perpetually on their guard again ft them. As to the 

 qualities of their mind we have had fo little inter- 

 courfe with this nation that we do not as yet know 

 their real temper ; but they have always had a fuffi- 

 cient bent towards mi/chief. 



They have been frequently known to go in the 

 night-time, and cut the cables of mips at anchor, 

 in order to make them drive on fhore, and then 

 plunder the wrecks; they are not afraid to attack 

 them even in open day on difcovering their crews 

 to be weak. It has never been poffible to tame 

 them, and it is not fafe to hold any difcourfe with 

 them but at the end of a long pole. They not only 

 refufe to come near the Europeans, but they will 

 not fo much as eat any thing they prefent to them ; 

 and in all things take fo many precautions on their 

 fide, which mark an extreme diftruft, that they 

 muft mutually infpire the lame with refpect to every 

 thing which comes from them. They are of an 

 advantageous Mature, and are tolerably well made. 

 Their fkin is as white as ours, which proceeds un- 

 doubtedly from their never going naked even in the 

 warmed weather. 



Their 



