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.

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.