CXXxvi A GENERAL HISTORY

the hair, while their abufive language confifts in applying the name of
the moft offenfive animal to the objeét of their difpleafure, and adding

the term ugly, and chiay, or ftill-born.*

Their arms and domeftic apparatus, in addition to the articles pro-
cured from Europeans, are fpears, bows, and arrows, fifhing-nets, and
lines made of green deer-fkin thongs. They have alfo nets for taking
the beaver as he endeavours to efcape from his lodge when it is broken
open. Itis fet in a particular manner for the purpofe, and a man is
employed to watch the moment when he enters the fnare, or he would
foon cut his way through it. He is then thrown upon the ice, where

he remains as if he had no life in him.

The {now-{hoes are of very fuperior workmanfhip. The inner part of
their frame is flraight, the outer one is curved, and it is pointed at both
ends, with that in front turned up. They are alfo laced with great
neatnefs with thongs made of deex-{kin. The fledges are formed of thin
flips of board turned up alfo in front, and are highly polifhed with
crooked knives, in order to flide along with facility. Clofe-grained
wood is, on that account, the beft; but theirs are made of the red or

{wamp {pruce-fir tree.

The country, which thefe people claim as their land, has a very
{mall quantity of earth, and produces little or no wood or herbage.

* This name is alfo applicable to the foetus of an animal, when killed, which is confidered as one
of the greateft delicacies,

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