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^xxi^' appearance of a moft excellent harbour at Hopper's 
July, I -8S. . , , 
The inhabitants feem to be a fine fet of people ; 
they are of a copper colour, ftout and well made ; their 
hair is long and black, with black eyes and eye brows, 
and they feem to have very fine teeth. The only orna- 
ments feen amongft them were necklaces made of beads 
intermixed with teethj and many of them had their faces 
painted white. 
If we may judge of thefe people from the conftruc- 
tion of their canoes, they certainly poffefs a confiderable 
fliare of contrivance and ingenuity : many of them are 
large enough to contain fixteen or twenty people ; they 
are narrow, and built to fail very fail, yet there is not 
the leaft danger of their overfetting, as they are fteadied 
with an out-rigger refembling a ladder on the weather 
fide, to one end of which a log of wood is faftened, 
cut fiiarp at each end in the form of a boat ; this not 
only ferves to keep the canoe upright, but likewife holds 
her to windward. At the other end of the out-rigger, 
a ftout rope is fixed, wiiich leads up to the maft head 
and ferves as a fliroud ; and when the wind blows frefli, 
two or more men, according to the iize of the canoe, 
go out upon the ladder to keep her upright. 
Though 
