well as their falmon, both dried and roafted. It appeared to me, that
they eat no flelh, except fuch as the fea may afford them, as thatof the
fea-otter and the leal. Thè ^nîy iïjffahée%^ obferved io the contrary,
was in the young. Indian who accompanied ns âmdngthe ilkttds^and
has been already mentioned as feafting on 'the flelh'of a porcupine i
whether this be their euftom throughout the year, o* oirl^charkgàhe
feafon o f the falmon fifhéryf br, whether there were any= eafts p£ them,
as in India, I cannot prétend to determine. It is eertei®, howevÆr, that
they are not hunters; and I have already menti©®ed AeJ abhorrei^e th^y
expreffed at feme veMfcn which we brought;to tjaeir village.:Bur jug
our former vifit to thefe peopley they requefted n&nofc » odifiMarge oiur
fire-arms, left the report Ihould frighten awaythe falmon , but nowthey
expreffed a wifh that I Ihould explain the ufe and: management o f them.
Though their demeanour to us was o f the mofi friinifiy nature, arid
théy appeared without any arms, except a,few who accidentally,had
their daggers, I did not think it altogether prudent pa djfefiprge opr
pieces ; I therefore fired one of my pdtols< at. a treer; marked, for. the
purpofè, when I put four out of five buck-lfiot, with whkh it wasilmdefh
into the circle, to their extreme aftonilhment and admiration.
Thefe people were in general of the middle ftature, well-fct, and better
clothed with flelh than any of the natives of the interior country. Their
faces are round, with MgJjjeheek hones, and their complexion between
the olive and the ebpper/ They have lmail grey eyes with a. tinge of
red ; they have wedge heads, and their hair is; of a dark brown, colour,
inclining to black. Some wear it long, keep it well combed, and let it
hang loofe over their ftioulders, while they divide- and tie it in knots over
the
the1 temples., ft Others arrange its:plaits, and bedawb it with brown earth, »793.
fo as to render it impervious to the comb; they, therefore* carry a '— -v—
bodkin about them to cafe the frequent; irritation, which maybe fup-
pcfied to piroc^edi from fueh a ftacé-of sthe. head. ' The women are inclined
to be fat, Wear their hair {hort, afid; appear to. be very fubje6l to
fwelfed fegsf a malady that, probably, pr©geeds' from the pofture in
whfck khey-drè alwayd fitting; as they are chiefly, employed in. the- do-
meftic engagements of.fpmhing, .weaving, preparing the filh, and nurfing
their children, which did dot appear to bei numerous. Their cradle
differed ffbM any that I had fdsn ? kdCOnfiftedsof a, frame fixed round a
board-of fiufflcient ?leng% in, which the child, after:it has been fwathed,
fe plated on a, bed efi mofs, and a condiiSc® contrived to carry off the
urinaryfdifc'harge.- They are llung; over onefhoukler by ipeatts of a
cord fattened under the other, fo that the infant is* always in a polition
to tó readily' appfied-tb/the breaft; when it requires; nourilhment I law
federal, whole heads were, incfofed in boards coveted with leather, till
they attain the form of a wedge. The women wear no clothing but the
rbhe* either loofe or tied round the middle with a girdle, as the occafion
may require, with the. addition of a fringed apron, already mentioned,
and a cape, in the form of an inverted bowl or difh. To the robe and
cap, the men add, when it rums, a circular mat with an opening in the
Middle füfiicient to admit the head, which extending over the Ihoulders,
throws off the wet. They alfo occafionally wear Iboes of dreflbd mooie*
Ikin, for which they are indebted to their neighbours. Thofe parts,
which- among alf civilized nations are covered from familiar view, are.
here openly expofed.
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