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or of the pine-tree, dried, which, in cafe of neceffity, 
is made life of as food, not only at Kamtchatka, but 
likewile throughout all Siberia, and even in Ruffia 
itfelf, as far as Viatka; alfo fea weeds made up into 
bundles, which, in look and in drength, are like 
thongs of raw leather. They are unacquainted with 
fpirituous liquors and tobacco ; a fure proof, that, 
hitherto, they have had no communication with the 
Europeans. 
They reckon if an extraordinary ornament, to 
bore, in feveral places, the lower parts of the cheeks, 
near the mouth ; and in [the holes] they let fome 
ftones and bones. Some wear, at their nodrils, date 
pencils, about four inches long; fome wear a bone 
of that bignefs, under the lower lip ; and others a 
like bone on the forehead. 
The nation, that lives in the illands round about 
cape Tchukotlki, and frequents the Tchutchi, is, 
certainly, of the fame origin with thofe people : for 
with them alfo it is thought an ornament [thus] to 
inlay [ingraft] bones. 
Major Paulutikoi, deceafed, after a battle, which 
he once fought againft the Tchutchi, found, among 
the dead bodies of the Tchutchi, two men of that 
nation, each of whom had two teeth of afea-horfeunder 
the nofe, let in holes made on purpofe : for which rea- 
fon, the inhabitants of that country call them Zubatai 
[toothed]. As the prifoners reported, thefe [men] 
did not come to the abidance of the Tchutchi, but 
to fee how they [ufed to] fight with the Ruffians. 
From this, it may be inferred, that the Tchutchi 
converfe with them, either in the fame language, or, 
at lead, in languages of fo great affinity, that they 
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