JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE THROUGH THE

magans, or clubs. The bows are about five or fix feet in length, and
the ftrings are of finews or raw fkins. The arrows are two feet and
an half long, including the barb, which is varioufly formed of bone,
horn, flint, iron, or copper, and are winged with three feathers. The
pole of the fpears is about fix feet in length, and pointed with a barbed
bone of ten inches. With this weapon they ftrike the rein-deer in the
water, The daggers are flat and f{harp-pointed, about twelve inches
long, and made of horn or bone. The pogamagon is made of the horn
of the rein-deer, the branches being all cut off, except that which forms the
extremity. ‘This inftrument is about two feet in length, and is employ-
ed to difpatch their enemies in battle, and fuch animals as they catch in
{nares placed for that purpofe. Thefe are about three fathom long, and
are made of the green fkin of the rein or moofe-deer, but in fuch {mall
{trips, that it requires from ten to thirty ftrands to make this cord,
which is not thicker than a cod-line; and ftrong enough to refift
any animal that can be entangled in it. Snares or noofes are alfo
made of finews to take leffer animals, fuch as hares and white ‘partridges,
which are very numerous. Their axes are manufafured of a piece of
brown or grey ftone from fix to eight inches long, and two inches thick.
The imfide is flat, and the outfide round and tapering to an edge, an
inch wide. ‘They are faftened by the middle with the flat fide inwards
to an handle twe fect long, with a cord of green {kin. This is the tool
with which they fplit their wood, and we believe, the only one of its kind
among them. They kindle fire, by ftriking together a-piece of white or
yellow pyrites and a flint ftone, over a piece of touchwood. They are
univerfally provided with a {mall bag containing thefe materials, fo that

they are in a continual ftate of preparation to produce fire. From the ad-

joining