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136 The Women do not eat in Company with the Men, but eparately by themelves; and in the Abence of their Hubands, when gone a fihing, they, being left to themelves, invite one another, and make grand Chear. And as they eat heartily, when they can come at it; o they can as well endure Hunger, when Scarcity of Proviion requires it. It has been oberved, that in great Scarcity they can live upon Pieces of old Skins, upon Reets, or Sea Weeds, and other uch Trah. But the Reaon why they can endure Hunger better than we Foreigners, I take to be their Bodies being o quat and corpulent, their Fat yielding them Matter of Nourihment within themelves, for a while, till it be conumed.

Beides the Proviions, they alo eat a ort of reddih  and a kind of Root, which they call Tugloronet, both dreed with Fat, or Train Oil; the Dung of the  taken out of the Guts, when they cleane them; the Entrails of Partridges, and the like  pas