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CHAP. XI.
Of their Habits, and Way of Dreſſing.
Men's Habits deſcribed.Their Clothes are, for the moſt part, made of Rain-Deer and Seal Skin, as alſo of Birds Skin nicely dreſſed and prepared. The Men's Habits are a Coat or Jacket, with a Cap or Hood ſewed to it, to cover the Head and Shoulders, in the Faſhion of a Domino, or Monk's Hood. This Coat reaches down to the Knees. Their Breeches are very ſmall, not coming above their Loins, that they may not hinder them in getting into their ſmall Boats. And as they wear no Linen, the Hairs of the Skins the Coat is made of, is turned inward, to keep them warm. Over this Coat they put on a large Frock, made of Seal Skin dreſſed and tanned, without Hair, in order to keep the Water out; and thus they are dreſſed when they go to Sea.
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