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but who will believe that any part of the new world 
was peopled from Samojeda ? All we know is, that 
the great Author of Nature has been pleafed to ai- 
verfify the human fpecies upon every continent. 
Thefe Indians, in general, are not very difagreeably 
featured, though there are fome among them who 
are extremely ugly. They are flat-vifaged, and have 
fhort nofes. Their hair is black and extremely 
coarfe. Their hands and feet are remarkably final 1, 
The women load their heads with large firings of 
beads, which they fallen to the hair above the ears; 
and they are fond of a hoop of bright brafs, which 
they wear as a coronet. Their drefs is intirely of 
Ikins, except thofe who have trafficked for a little 
blanketing. It con fills of a fort or hooded clofe 
fhirt, breeches, ftockings, and boots. They wear 
the hairy fide towards them, according to the fea- 
fons ; and between the drefs of the different fexes- 
there is no variety, except that the women wear 
monflrous large boots, and their upper garment is 
ornamented with a tail. In the boots they occa- 
fionally place their children ; but the youngefl is 
always carried at their back, in the hood of their 
They have no fort of bread ; but live chiefly on 
the flefh of leal, deer, fifh, and of birds. Till very 
lately they ate every thing raw,, and putrefadlion was 
deemed no objection. 
In the winter they live in h.oufes y or rather ca- 
verns, for they are funk in the earth. In the fum- 
mer they dwell in tents,, which, are made circular 
with poles, and covered with fkins fewed together. 
The houfe confifls of one room, and though not 
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