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* mitchagatki , otherwife called northern ducks. 
But, of unknown birds, they obferved more than 
ten forts, which it was not difficult to diltinguilh 
from European birds, by the livelinefs of their co- 
lours. 
With regard to the inhabitants of thofe parts, they 
are fuch a wild people, as the Koriaki and Tchuktchi. 
As to their perfons, they are well fet, broad and 
ftrong ffiouidered. The hair of their head is black, 
and /trait, and they wear it loofe. Their face is 
tawny [brown], and fat as a plate; their nofe is 
fat, but not very broad ; their eyes are as black as 
jet ; their lips thick ; their beard lmail ; and their 
neck thort. 
They wear ffiirts with lleeves, which reach lower 
than the knee ; and they tye them up, with thongs 
of leather, below the belly. Their breeches and 
boots [which are made] of the Ikins of feals, and 
dyed with alder, much refemble the Kamtchadalian. 
They carry, at their girdles, iron knives, with 
handles, fuch as [are thofe] of our boors. Their 
hats are platted [matted] of herbs, as with the Kamt- 
chadalians, without a [riling] top, in the ffiape of 
an umbrella; they are dyed in green, and in black, 
with falcon’s feathers, in the fore-part, or with [fome] 
herb, combed, as if it were a plume of feathers, fuch 
as the Americans ufe about Brafil. They live upon fill, 
fea animals, and the fweet-herb, which they prepare 
after the Kamtchatka manner. Befides this, it has 
been obferved, that they have alio the bark of poplar, 
* Mitchagatka , alca monachroa fulcis tribus, circo duplici utrin- 
que dependente. Anas ardtica cirrata. 
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