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among# the females of Greenland, as we learn from 1778. 
Crantz*. Their bodies are not painted, which may be , May ‘ 
owing to the fcarcity of proper materials; for all the colours 
which they brought to fell in bladders, were in very fmall 
quantities. Upon the whole, I have no where feen favages 
who take more pains than thefe people do, to ornament, or 
rather to disfigure their perfons. 
Their boats or canoes are of two forts; the one being 
large and open, and the other fmall and covered. I men¬ 
tioned already, that in one of the large boats were twenty 
women, and one man, befides children. I attentively exa¬ 
mined and compared the conftruftion of this, with Crantz’s 
defcription of what he calls the great, or women’s boat in 
Greenland, and found that they were built in the fame 
manner, parts like parts, with no other difference than in 
the form of the head and ftern; particularly of the firft, 
which bears fome refemblance to the head of a whale. The 
framing is of llender pieces of wood, over which the fkins 
of feals, or of other larger fea-animals, are ftretched, to 
compofe the outfide. It appeared alfo, that the fmall canoes 
of thefe people are made nearly of the fame form, and of 
the fame materials with thofe ufed by the Greenlanders f 
and Efquimaux; at leaft the difference is not material. 
Some of thefe, as I have before obferved, carry two men. 
They are broader in proportion to their length than thofe 
of the Efquimaux; and the head or fore-part curves fome- 
what like the head of a violin. 
The weapons, and inftruments for fiftiing and hunting, 
are the very fame that are made ufe of by the Efquimaux 
and Greenlanders; and it is unneceffary to be particular in 
my account of them, as they are all very accurately defcribed 
* Vol. i. p. 138. + See Crantz, Vol. i. p. 150. 
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