with white earth is also frequent among both sexes: but, unlike the
inhabitants of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean, they reject the
beautiful feathers which the birds of their country afford.

Exclusive of their weapons of offence, and a few stone hatchets very
rudely fashioned, their ingenuity is confined to manufacturing small
nets, in which they put the fish they catch, and to fish-hooks made of
bone, neither of which are unskilfully executed. On many of the rocks
are also to be found delineations of the figures of men and birds, very
poorly cut.

Of the use or benefit of cloathing, these people appear to have no
comprehension, though their sufferings from the climate they live in,
strongly point out the necessity of a covering from the rigour of the
seasons. Both sexes, and those of all ages, are invariably found naked.
But it must not be inferred from this, that custom so inures them to
the changes of the elements, as to make them bear with indifference the
extremes of heat and cold; for we have had visible and repeated proofs,
that the latter affects them severely, when they are seen shivering,
and huddling themselves up in heaps in their huts, or the caverns of the
rocks, until a fire can be kindled.

Than these huts nothing more rude in construction, or deficient in
conveniency, can be imagined. They consist only of pieces of bark laid
together in the form of an oven, open at one end, and very low, though
long enough for a man to lie at full length. There is reason, however,
to believe, that they depend less on them for shelter, than on the
caverns with which the rocks abound.

To cultivation of the ground they are utter strangers, and wholly depend