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upon the worn out fir branches, and then all hands fall to work; scumming now and then the top of the Kettle, so as to lose nothing of the dirty and oily substance remaining of the soup. When the fish is plentiful, it is generally wasted on the ashes before the fire. Another favourite method of cooking fish, is to take a frozen fish and heat it hastily upon the coals until the flesh next the bones begins to thaw, by which time the fish is esteemed well cooked. They eat more at a time cooked in this manner than any other way. The same poverty, nastiness and sloth distinguish their Habitations, which are generally of an oblong square form, entirely built of wood piled upon one another until about 2 or at most 3 feet high, I mean the Square. The wood is placed perpendicular at the gavel ends and a little higher than the

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