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the berries called Schickfa will grow 
there ; and fome years none at all. When 
the fea fails to throw up the cuftomary 
fupply, they live upon the common fea- 
mufTels, &c. Wherever any one has 
fixed his habitation, nobody clfe dares to 
hunt or fifh in the neighbourhood, nor 
appropriate to himfelf what the fea has 
call: up, unlefs he has previoufly agreed 
with him for a part of the produce. If 
a man happens, on his way or in hunting, 
to come upon another man's territory, he 
muft take up his lodging in their Baidars, 
unlefs he is a relation, for in that cafe he 
takes him into his hut. As they do not 
conftantly reiide in one place, their num- 
bers cannot be exactly afcertained. The 
men, and women too, cut their hair be- 
fore, and fome all round, and tie it up 
in a bunch behind; but if they are in 
affliction, or meet with any mifchance, 
they let it hang down carelefslv. They 
bore the upper lip of the young children 
of both fexes, under the nofhils, where 
they hang feveral forts of fiones, and 
whitened 
