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more generally known from the nu- 

 merous accounts of that country. 



When the Indians of this part of the 

 world have occafion to ftop any where 

 in their rambles, if it be only for a night 

 or two, the men, who take this bufinefs 

 upon them, while the women are em- 

 ployed in much more laborious offices, 

 fuch as diving in the fea for fea-eggs, 

 and fearching the rocks for fliell-fifli, 

 getting fuel, &c. repair to the woods, 

 and cutting a fufficient number of tall, 

 ftrait branches, fix them in an irregular 

 kind of circle, of uncertain dimenfions ; 

 which having done, they bend the extre- 

 mities of thefe branches fo as to meet in 

 a centre at top, where they bind them by 

 a kind of woodbine, called fupple-jack, 

 which they fplit by holding it in their 

 teeth. This frame, or fkeleton of 

 a hut, is made tight againft the weather 

 with a covering of boughs and bark ; 

 but as the bark is not got without fome 



trouble, 



