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piece & is hung upon the shoulders so loosely that this is the only opening & the garment is put on or off through the neck- When at work or waiting upon the men or at work the women usually have the right arm & breast bare by slipping the garment off this shoulder- The natives were strictly honest, good natured & harmless but annoyed them considerably by their familiarity & curiosity and wishing to come into the tent though while the party were asleep they were never disturbed 
They were great beggars too pilot bread & tobacco and are willing to sell anything for these articles. Women are tattoed on nose, chin and cheeks  The infants are sewed up in a fur bag with a small 
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opening for the face (& one behind) they were (their men) seen walking about bare footed upon the snow & also seen in bathing among the fragments of floating ice
They reckon time duly in moons & do not know their ages. 
Their main food consists of seal (& walrus) eaten cooked or raw. When one dies the body is lashed to a pole & thus carried to a distance inland & away from the village when the body is stripped the clothes placed together with stone upon them- the weapons &c of deceased are buried near by & the body left for the ravens & animals to Eat-
They had no ideas of modesty & when in their lodges the males stripped & the women nearly always were naked to waist & frequently were stripped entirely & [[strikethrough]] if [[/strikethrough]] were 

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