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part of them are not half the above fize, and feldom exceed i 777 . 
four feet in height; being, belides, indifferently built, , I?ebruat v 
though proof againft wind and rain. 
No other furniture is to be feen in them, than a few 
fmall balkets or bags, in which they put their fifhing- 
hooks, and other trifles ; and they fit down in the 
middle round a fmall fire, where they alfo probably deep, 
without any other covering than what they wear in the 
day, or perhaps without that; as fuch confined places 
muff be very warm, though inhabited but by a few 
perfons. 
They live chiefly by billing, making ufe either of nets 
of different kinds, or of wooden fifh-hooks pointed with 
bone; but fo-oddly made, that a ftranger is at a lofs to 
know how they can anfwer fuch a purpofe. It alfo ap¬ 
pears, that they remove their habitations from one place 
to another when the fifli grow fcarce, or for fome other 
reafon; for we found houfes now built in feveral parts, 
where there had been none when we were here during our 
laft voyage, and even thefe have been already deferted. 
Their boats are well built, of planks raifed upon each 
other, and fattened with ftrong withes, which alfo bind 
a long narrow piece on the outfide of the feams to pre¬ 
vent their leaking. Some are fifty feet long, and fo broad 
as to be able to fail without an outrigger; but the fmaller 
fort commonly have one; and they often fatten two toge¬ 
ther by rafters, which we then call a double canoe. They 
carry from five to thirty men or more; and have often a 
large head ingenioufly carved, and painted with a figure 
at the point, which feems intended to reprefent a man, 
with his features diftorted by rage. Their paddles are 
about four or five feet long, narrow, and pointed; with 
which, 
