The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part IHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12: America, Part I
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
They are men of a large corporature, and good proportion: their colour is
not much vnlike the Sunne burnt Countrey man, who laboureth daily in the
Sunne for his liuing.
They weare their haire something long, and cut before either with stone or
knife, very disorderly. Their women weare their haire long and knit vp with
two loupes, shewing forth on either side of their faces, and the rest
foltred vpon a knot. Also some of their women race their faces
proportionally, as chinne, cheekes, and forehead, and the wrists of their
hands, wherevpon they lay a colour which continueth darke azurine.
They eate their meat all raw, both flesh, fish, and foule, or something per
boyled with blood and a little water which they drinke. For lacke of water
they will eate yce, that is hard frosen, as pleasantly as we will do Sugar
Candie, or other Sugar.
If they for necessities sake stand in need of the premisses, such grasse as
the countrey yeeldeth they plucke vp and eate, not deintily, or salletwise
to allure their stomacks to appetite: but for necessities sake without
either salt, oiles or washing, like brute beasts deuouring the same. They
neither vse table, stoole, or table cloth for comlines; but when they are
imbrued with blood knuckle deepe, and their kniues in like sort, they vse
their tongues as apt instruments to lick them cleane: in doing whereof they
are assured to loose none of their victuals.
[Sidenote: Dogges like vnto wolues.] They frank or keepe certaine dogs not
much vnlike Wolues, which they yoke togither, as we do oxen and horses, to
a sled or traile: and so carry their necessaries ouer the yce and snow from
place to place: as the captiue, whom we haue, made perfect signes.
[Sidenote: They eate dogs flesh.] And when these dogs are not apt for the
same vse: or when with hunger they are constrained for lacke of other
victuals, they eate them: so that they are as needfull for them in respect
of their bignesse, as our oxen are for vs.
They apparell themselues in the skins of such beasts as they kill, sewed
together with the sinewes of them. All the foule which they kill, they
skin, and make thereof one kind of garment or other to defend them from the
cold.
[Sidenote: Hoods and tailes to their apparell.] They make their apparel
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.
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