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very large, yet it contains feveral brothers or other 
relations, with their wives and children. Their 
tents are ffill more crouded ; becaufe, as the whole 
fummer they are generally rambling up and down 
the coaft, they endeavour to diminiffi their baggage 
as much as poffible. 
In the fummer they find no difficulty in procuring 
food ; but it is not fo with them in winter, againft 
which feafon they dry fiffi in the fun, and preferve 
the fat or oil of feals in fkinveffels. 
They have no fort of beverage among them, ex- 
cept water. They are not as yet fond of fpirituous 
liquors, and there are but few that will tafte of any. 
It is certain they are able to fubfift a long while 
without eating ; but when they have plenty, they 
devour a prodigious quantity. When they are preffed 
with hunger, and have nothing to fatisfy it, they 
make their nofes bleed, and fuck the blood to fup- 
port themfelves. 
They appear to be abfolutely without any fort of 
religion ; nor have they fo much as an object of 
adoration among them. They live happy in their 
ignorance, and enjoy the bleffing of being Grangers 
to perfecution and torture. 
They are without any government ; and no man 
is fuperior to another, but as he excels in ftrength 
or in courage, and in having the greateft number of 
wives and children. Being entirely without laws, 
general cenfure is the only punifhment for the moft 
deteflable crimes. 
They have no marriage ceremony. A wife is 
considered as property, and a hufbani lends one of 
his wives to to a friend. The wives are given very 
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