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A VOYAGE TO 
July* we under ^ ood > was to exprefs their pacific intentions. 
' At length fome approached near enough to receive a 
few trifles that were thrown to them. This encouraged 
the reft to venture along-fide; and a traffic prefently 
commenced between them and our people; who got 
drefles of fkins, bows, arrows, darts, wooden veflels, &c .; 
our vifiters taking in exchange for thefe whatever was of¬ 
fered them. They feemed to be the fame fort of people 
that we had of late met with all along this coaft; wore the 
fame kind of ornaments in their lips and nofes ; but were 
far more dirty, and not fo well clothed. They appeared to 
be wholly unacquainted with people like us; they knew 
not the ufe of tobacco; nor was any foreign article feen 
in their pofleflion, unlefs a knife may be looked upon as 
fuch. This, indeed, was only a piece of compion iron 
fitted in a wooden handle, fo as to anfwer the purpofe of 
a knife. They, however, knew the value and ufe of this 
inftrument fo well, that it feemed to be the only article 
they wifhed for. Moll of them had their hair fhaved or cut 
fhort off, leaving only a few locks behind, or on one fide. 
For a covering for the head they wore a hood of fkins, 
and a bonnet which appeared to be of wood. One part of 
their drefs, which we got from them, was a kind of 
girdle, very neatly made of fkin, with trappings depend¬ 
ing from it, and palling between the legs, fo as to con¬ 
ceal the adjoining parts. By the ufe of fuch a girdle, it 
fhould feem that they fometimes go naked, even in this 
high latitude; for they hardly wear it under their other 
clothing. 
The canoes were made of fkins, like all the others we 
had lately feen; only with this difference, that thefe were 
broader, and the hole in which the man fits was wider, 
than 
