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3. That they make ufe of a * wooden machine 
[inftead of a tinder-box], to light fire with. 
4. That, from many tokens, it is conjectured, 
that they ufe axes made of ftones, or of bones : and 
it is not without foundation, Mr. Steller thinks, that 
the Americans had once a communication with the 
people of Kamtchatka. 
y. That their cloaths and their hats do not differ 
from the Kamtchadalian. 
6. That they dye the fkins with alder, after the 
Kamtchatka manner. 
Which marks fhew it to be very poffible, that 
they came from the fame race. This very thing, he 
rightly judges-, may help alfo to folve that queftion, 
“ Whence came the inhabitants of America ? ” For 
though we fhould fuppofe, that America and Alia 
were never joined ; neverthelefs, confidering the near- 
nefs of thofe two parts of the world at the north, 
no one can fay, that it was impracticable for people 
from Afia to go over to fettle in America ; efpecially, 
as there are iflands enough, and at fo fmall a diftance, 
which might facilitate not a little fuch a paffage [in 
order to fettle]. 
Their armour for war is a bow and arrows. 
What kind of a bow it is, we cannot fay, as it did 
not happen [to our people] to fee any ; but their 
arrows are much longer than the Kamtchadalian, 
and greatly refemble the Tungufian and Tartarian 
[arrows], Thofe, which came in the way of our 
people, were dyed black, and planed fo fmooth, that 
* See Description of Kamtchatka. 
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