with hoods and tailes, which tailes they giue when they thinke to gratifie
any friendship shewed vnto them: a great signe of friendship with them. The
men haue them not so side[55] as the women.

The men and women weare their hose close to their legges, from the wast to
the knee without any open before, as well the one kind as the other. Vpon
their legges they weare hose of leather, with the furre side inward two or
three paire on at once, and especially the women. In those hose they put
their kniues, needles, and other thing needfull to beare about. They put a
bone within their hose, which reacheth from the foote to the knee,
whereupon they draw the said hose, and so in place of garters they are
holden from falling downe about their feete.

They dresse their skinnes very soft and souple with the haire on. In cold
weather or Winter they weare the furre side inward: and Summer outward.
Other apparell they haue none but the said skinnes.

Those beasts, fishes, and foules, which they kill, are their meat, drinke,
apparell, houses, bedding, hose, shooes, threed, and sailes for their
boates, with many other necessaries whereof they stand in need, and almost
all their riches.

[Sidenote: Their houses of Seale skins and firre.] Their houses are tents
made of Seale skins, pitched vp with 4. Firre quarters foure square meeting
at the top, and the skins sewed together with sinews, and laid thereupon:
they are so pitched vp, that the entrance into them is alwayes South or
against the Sunne.

They haue other sorts of houses which we found not to be inhabited, which
are raised with stones and Whale bones, and a skinne layd ouer them, to