Cap.XVHI. The Caribby-Iflands. 



in with a very thin black (kin 3 as it is reprefented among tshc 

 Brafs-cuts. 



The reft of their cloths, even their Bufkins, are of feveral 

 pieces cut proportionably one to another, as their Shirts are $ 

 but they areofa ftronger ftufT,to wit, Harts-fkins, or Sea-dogs- 

 Ikins very well drefs'd with the hair on .* The cloaths of the Sa- 

 vage whole pourtrait is to be feen among the Sculps, taken by 

 the Original, were of Leather oftwo feveral colours, the pieces 

 were cut of the fame bredth, and put together fo handlbmly, 

 that a white piece was fewn between two darkcolour'd pieces, 

 which Ihew'd very prettily: The hair which was on the out- 

 fide was as fmooth and as foft as Velvet, and the leveral pieces 

 were fo neatly joyn'd together, that a man would think by the 

 out-fide that the Garment was all made of the fame fkin. As 

 to the faftiion of the Coat, and the external ornaments of the 

 Savage, the Graver hathfo naturally reprefented them in the 

 Sculp, that we need not trouble the Reader with any further 

 defcription thereof. 



The Savages inhabiting about the forefaid Streight never go 

 abroad into the Country but they have at their back a Quiver 

 full of Arrows, and a Bow or a Lance in their hands : Their 

 Arrows are of feveral kinds, fome are for the killing of Hares, 

 Foxes, great Birds, and all forts of fmall Ga*ne > others for 

 Harts, Elks, Bears, and other greater Beafts : The former are 

 riot above two or three foot in length, and inftead of iron at 

 the top they put a fmall (harp bone, which on one of the fides 

 hath three or four little hooks, fo that it cannot be taken out 

 of the place wounded without widening the wound : The lat- 

 ter ,which are at leaft four or five foot long, have alfo at the end 

 a ftiarp bone jagged like the teeth of a Saw : They caft thefe 

 latter with the hand 5 but to give them the greater force, and 

 make them do execution at a greater diftance, they faften to 

 their right arm a piece of wood a foot and a half long, which 

 on one fide hath a deep channel into which they put the butt- 

 end of the Javelin , which being caft thence goes off with a 

 greater violence. 



They fometimes alfo carry in their hands a kind of Lance, of 

 a tough and heavy [wood, which is tipp'd at the fmaller end 

 with a round bone, the point whereof had been fharpened on 

 a done, or they ftrengthen it with the horns or teeth of the fifh 

 before defcribed : Thefe Lances are feven or eight foot in 

 length, and beautifi'd at the butt-end with two little wings of 

 Wood, or Whale-bone, which make them a little more fight- 

 ly then they would be otherwiie. 



Befides the feveral forts of ho©ks wherewith they take the 

 finaller fifties frequenting their Coafts, they have divers kinds 

 of Javelins , which with a wonderful dexterity they dart at 

 *he great and monftrous fifties they take in the Sea : And that 



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