WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
who came on fliore for what they could procure. Many 
of them were painted about the head, breaft, and fhoulders, 
with fome white fubilance. None of thofe who were thus 
ornamented came on fhore, till by figns we made them, 
underftand that we intended to ofFer them fome prefents; 
and even then, only one of them ventured. To this 
perfon Lieutenant CrefTwell gave a white pocket hand- 
kerchief, with which fhe feemed much pleafed. Every 
gentleman now lingled out a female, and prefented 
her with fome trinkets, not forgetting, at the fame 
time, to bellow gifts upon fome of her family, whom 
fhe took condderable pains to make known, left . they 
fhould fall into the hands of fuch as did not belong 
to her. It was remarked that all the women and children, « 
(an old woman excepted) had the little finger of the left 
hand taken off at the fecond joint 5 the ftump of which 
was as well covered as if the operation had been performed 
by a furgeon. 
While we were thus employed among the women, a 
body of men came out of the woods with a new canoe, 
made of cork. It was one of the beft we had ob~ 
ferved in this country ; though it fell very fhort of thofe 
which 
