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Thefe Indians cannot reckon numerically beyond 
fix ; and their compound numbers reach no farther 
than twenty-one. Every thing beyond is a multi- 
tude. 
They live always upon the fea-fhores, from their 
dread of the Mountaineers. Their canoes contain 
only one perfon ; they are extremely long in pro- 
portion to their breadth, being upwards of twenty 
feet by two ; they are covered with fkins, and are 
extremely light, l'o that they are overfet vfith the 
lead: inclination to one fide or the other. It is really 
a very extraordinary circumflance, that though thefe 
people are almoft ever in their canoes, which are fo 
excefiively ticklifih, there is not one among them 
that can fwim. 
They navigate their fhallops without a compafs in 
' the thickeft logs, and are very good coafters. They 
have always a vaft number of dogs in their camp, 
which are of feveral ufes. Thefe animals ferve as a 
guard ; they are food ; their fkins are valuable for 
cloathing 5 and they draw their fledges in winter. 
They have not the power of barking, but their howl 
is hideous ; they are large, and have a head like a 
fox, whereas the dogs of the Mountaineers are ex- 
tremely fmall. The Samojedes and the Laplanders 
train the rein-deer to their fledges* The country 
of Labradore produces thefe animals ; but they 
are only ferviceable to the Efquimeaux for food and. 
raiment. - 
The weapons of thefe Indians are, the dart and 
the bow and arrow. They are not very expert in 
the ufe of either ; although it is with thefe they de- 
fend 
