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1778. alfo have thefe frocks made of the fkins of fowls, with 
only the down remaining on them, which they glue on 
other fubftances. And we faw one or two woollen garments 
like thofe of Nootka. At the feams, where the different 
fkins are fewed together, they are commonly ornamented 
with taffels or fringes of narrow thongs, cut out of the 
fame fkins. A few have a kind of cape, or collar; and 
fome a hood; but the other is the moft common form, and 
feems to be their whole drefs in good weather. When it 
rains, they put over this another frock, ingeniously made 
from the inteftines of whales, or fome other large animal, 
prepared fo fkilfully, as almofl to refemble our gold-beater’s 
leaf. It is made to draw tight round the neck; its fleeves 
reach as low as the wrift, round which they are tied with a 
firing; and its fkirts, when they are in their canoes, are 
drawn over the rim of the hole in which they fit; fo that 
no water can enter. At the fame time, it keeps the men 
entirely dry upward. For no water can' penetrate through 
it, any more than through a bladder. It muft be kept 
continually moifl or wet; otherwife it is apt to crack or 
break. This, as well^as the common frock made of the 
fkins, bears a great refemblance to the drefs of the Green¬ 
landers, as defcribed by Crantz *. 
In general, they do not cover their legs, or feet; but a 
few have a kind of fkin flockings, which reach half-way 
* Crantz’s Hiftory of Greenland, Vol. i. p. 136—138. The reader will find in 
Crantz many very ftriking inftances, in which the Greenlanders, and Americans of 
Prince William’s Sound, refemble each other, befides thofe mentioned in this Chapter 
by Captain Cook. The drefs of the people of Prince William’s Sound, as defcribed by 
Captain Cook, alfo agrees with that of the inhabitants of Schumagin’s Iflands, difeovered 
by Beering in 1741. Muller’s words are, u Leur habillement etoit de boyaux de 
u baleines pour le haut du corps, et de peaux de chiens-marins pour le bas.” Decouvertes 
As Ruffes, p. 274. 
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