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Some account of New Holland

do it, we saw many places in the woods where they had slept with no other shelter than a few bushes & grass, a foot or two high to shade them from the wind, this probably is their custom while they travel from place to place & sleep upon the road in situations where they do not mean to make any stay
[Margin note]  Furniture
The only Furniture belonging to these houses that we saw at least, was oblong vessels of Bark made by the simple contrivance of tying up the two ends of a longish peice with a withe which not being cut off serves for a handle  these we imagind serv'd for the purpose of Water Buckets to fetch water from the springs which may sometimes be distant. we have reason to suppose that when they travel these are carried by the women from place to place  indeed the few opportunities we had of seeing the women they were generaly employd in some laborious occupation as fetching wood, gathering shell fish &c.

The men again maybe constantly carry their arms in their hands  3 or 4 lances in one & the machine
 

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