THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
All of them had their ears bored; and fome had glafs heads 
hanging to them. Thefe were fhe only fixed ornaments v 
we faw about them; for they wear none to the lips. This 
is another thing in which they differ from the Americans 
we had lately feen. 
Their clothing conftfted of a cap, a frock, a pair of 
breeches, a pair of boots, and a pair of gloves, all made of 
leather, or of the fkins of deer, dogs, feals, 8cc. and ex¬ 
tremely well dreffed; fome with the hair or fur on; but 
others without it. The caps were made to fit the head very 
clofe; and befides thefe caps, which moft of them wore, we 
got from them fome hoods, made of fkins of dogs, that 
were large enough to cover both head and fhoulders. Their 
hair feemed to be black; but their heads were either ffiav- 
ed, or the hair cut clofe off; and none of them wore any 
beard. Of the few articles which they got from us, knives 
and tobacco were what they valued moft. 
We found the village compofed both of their fummer and 
their winter habitations. The latter are exacftly like a vault, 
the floor of which is funk a little below the furface of the 
earth. One of them, which I examined, was of an oval 
form, about twenty feet long, and twelve or more high. 
The framing was compofed of wood, and the ribs of whales, 
difpofed in a judicious manner, and bound together with 
fm after materials of the fame fort. Over this framing is laid 
a covering of ftrong coarfe grafs; and that again is covered 
with earth; fo that, on the outfide, the houfe looks like a 
little hillock, fupported by a waft of ftone, three or four feet 
high, which is built round the two iides, and one end. At 
the other end, the earth is raifed Hoping, to walk up to the 
entrance, which is by a hole in the top of the roof over that 
end. The floor was boarded, and under it a kind of cellar, 
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Auguft. 
