A VOYAGE TO 
1778. they have not, as yet, thought of reducing thefe to fmaller 
pieces and mouthfuls, by the fame means, though obvi- 
oully more convenient and cleanly. But they feem to have 
no idea of cleanlinefs ; for they eat the roots which they 
dig from the ground, without fo much as fhaking off the 
foil that adheres to them. 
We are uncertain if they have any fet time for meals ; 
for we have feen them eat at all hours, in their canoes. 
And yet, from feeing feveral melfes of the porpoife broth 
preparing toward noon, when we vilited the village, I 
lhould fufpe< 5 t that they make a principal meal about that 
time. 
Their weapons are bows and arrows, flings, fpears, fhort 
truncheons of bone, fomewhat like the patoo patoo of 
New Zealand, and a fmall pick-axe, not unlike the com¬ 
mon American tomahawk. The fpear has generally a long- 
point, made of bone. Some of the arrows are pointed with 
iron; but moil: commonly their points were of indented 
bone. The tomahawk is a ftone, fix or eight inches long, 
pointed at one end, and the other end fixed into a handle 
of wood. This handle refembles the head and neck of the 
human figure ; and the ftone is fixed in the mouth, fo as 
to reprefent an enormoufly large tongue. To make the 
refemblance ftill ftronger, human hair is alfo fixed to it. 
This weapon they call taaweejh , or tfujkeeah. They have 
another ftone weapon called Jeeatky nine inches or a foot 
long, with a fquare point. 
From the number of ftone weapons, and others, we might 
almoft conclude, that it is their cuftom to engage in clofe 
fight; and we had too convincing proofs that their wars are 
both frequent and bloody, from the vaft number of human 
fculls which they brought to fell. 
Their 
