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forget their bow and arrow?, their fpears, 
their knife and axe, which were almoft 
worn out, their awls, and their needles 
which they kept carefully in a bone-box, 
very ingenioully made with their knife 
only ; and, in fhert, every thing they 
were porTefTed of. 
Some of thefe tilings they brought with 
them to Peterjburg; others they after- 
wards font by Mr. Vernezobre from 
Archangel, as prefents for Count Schu- 
walow, who was pleafed to commit 
them to my care. This gave me an op- 
portunity of examining them at lcifure, 
and to lay them before many curious and 
ingenious per Tons, who could not fufli- 
ciently admire them. 
One day, when I fhewed the bone 
needle -cafe above-mentioned to fome 
of thofe gentlemen, and told them the 
jailors had, according to their account, 
made it with their knife, they anfwered 
me that it could not be; that it was im- 
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