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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. by Crantz*. I did not fee a Angle one with thefe people 
that he has not mentioned; nor has he mentioned one that 
they have not. For defenlive armour they have a kind of 
jacket, or coat of mail, made of thin laths, bound together 
with finews, which makes it quite flexible, though fo clofe 
as not to admit an arrow or dart. It only covers the trunk 
of the body, and may not be improperly compared to a wo¬ 
man’s flays. 
As none of thefe people lived in the bay where we an¬ 
chored, or where any of us landed, we faw none of their 
habitations ; and I had not time to look after them. Of their 
domeftic utenfils, they brought in their boats fome round 
and oval Ihallow difhes of wood; and others of a cylindri¬ 
cal fliape much deeper. The fldes were made of one piece, 
bent round, like our chip-boxes, though thick, neatly 
fattened with thongs, and the bottoms fixed in with fmall 
wooden pegs. Others were fmaller, and of a more elegant 
lhape, fomewhat refembling a large oval butter-boat, with¬ 
out a handle, but more fliallow, made from a piece of 
wood, or horny fubftance. Thefe laft were fometimes 
neatly carved. They had many little fquare bags, made of 
the fame gut with their outer frocks, neatly ornament¬ 
ed with very minute red feathers interwoven with it, in 
which were contained fome very fine finews, and bundles 
of fmall cord, made from them, moft ingenioufly plaited. 
They alfo brought many chequered bafkets, fo clofely 
wrought as to hold water; fome wooden models of their 
canoes; a good many little images, four or five inches 
long, either of wood, or fluffed; which were covered with 
a bit of fur, and ornamented with pieces of fmall quill 
* Vol. i. p. 146. He has alfo given a reprefentation of them on a plate there in- 
ferted. 
feathers, 
