rude and inartificial ftrutSure that can be imagined. They
were nothing more than a- few poles fet up fo as to incline
towards each other, and meet at the top, forming a kind of
a cone, like foifie of our bee-hives: on the weather fide they
were covered with a few boughs, a.nd a little grafs ; and on
the lee-fide about one eighth of the cirfcle'Was left open, both
for a-door and a fire-place; and of this Rind were the huts
that had been feen in St. Vincent’s Bay, in’ one of Which thé
embers of a fire were Hill remaining. Furiiiture they had
none ; a little grafs, which lay round the infide of the hovel,
ferved both for chairs and beds1; and Of all the utenfils which
nccellity and ingenuity have concurred to produce among
other lavage nations, they faw otily a bafket‘ to carry in the
hand, a fatchel to hang at the backhand the bladder of fothe
beaft to hold Water, which the natives'drink through’ a hole
that is made near the top for that purpofe.
The inhabitants of this town were a fmall tribe, not more
than fifty in number, of both fexes and o f every age. Their
colour refembles that of the ruft of iron mixed with oil, and:
they-have long black hair: the men are large, but clumfily
built; their ftaturè is from five feet eight to five feet ten;.
the women are much lefs, few of them being more than five-
fèet high. Their whole apparel confills of the Ikin of i l
guanicoe, or feal, which is thrown aver their Ihoulders,,
exactly in the ftate in which it came from the animal’s back
a piece of the fame fkin, which is drawn over their'feet, and
gathered about the ancles like a purfe, and a fmall flap,
which is worn by the women as a fuccedaneum for a fig-
leaf. The men wear their cloak open, the women tie it
about their waift with a thong. But although they are content
to be naked, they are very ambitious to be fine. Theirr
faces were painted in various forms : the region o f ; the-eye-
1769-
January.
was.’