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cloathing, only theirs are moitly made of 
the fkins of beafts; namely, of the beaver 
and cat-frfh, fewed together with the 
finews of the Sjutfcha. A man has as 
many wives as he pleafes, or as he can 
afford to keep ; but he often trades with 
them different ways: for inftance, if one 
man is in pofTeffion of fomething that 
another has a fancy for, he lets him have 
it for a wife or two. They do the fame 
with their children, efpecially with their 
boys. They feed upon the fiefh of 
feveral animals, and commonly eat it 
raw; fometimes they roaft or broil it. 
Their manner of doing it is this : they heap 
up fome flones, which they bind on all 
iides with clay, light a fire underneath, 
then lay fome fficks acrofs the top, on 
which they put their meat or fifh to broil 
They catch the Paltujina and flock-fifh, 
both in winter and fummer, with bone 
hooks, fattened to a firing: the larger fifh 
they fhoot with arrows. The whales 
which the fea cafts on iliore are a great 
addition to their provifion. Some years 
the 
