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of black duck, called Arkea and TV 
porka (a) which they have the art of 
catching by the fea-fide, with a fling made 
of whalebone. With the guts of the fea- 
cows and fea-calves, which they call S:- 
utfcha and Nerpa, they fow their Kam- 
lees, or upper garments. They ufe no- 
thing elfe for their clothing. — 3. For their 
common food, they are content with raw 
filh, and mofrly with what they call Val- 
tujinci) and other kinds of frock fifh. If 
they are hindered from fiming by con- 
trary wind, they live upon fea-kail, 
(Crambe Littoralis Bunias) and fea- 
oyfters. — 4. In May and June they go 
out to catch Nerpas (fea-calves) and 
beavers. — 5. In the depth of winter, by 
the fevereft cold, they go juft as in 
fummer, with their fifh-fkin and bird- 
fkin upper and under garments, without 
breeches, 
(a) Moft of them are a kind of fea-fowl, (called 
Tubtani) which are cauglit in great numbers, a 
hundred different ways ; they are of a very beautiful 
red colour, and ahnoft as lar^c as a eoofe. 
