but was taken and carried on board, shewing few signs of fear or concern.  She was of a middle size and reddish colour, with a big belly, a fierce countenance, and her hair close cut as if shaven, whereas the men wear their hair long.  She had a string of snail-shells about her neck by way of ornament, and a seal’s skin on her shoulders, tied round her neck with a string of gut.  The rest of her body was quite naked, and her breasts hung down like the udders of a cow.  Her mouth was very wide, her legs crooked, and her heels very long.

This female savage would not eat any of their boiled or roasted meats, so they gave her one of the birds they had found in the canoes.  Having pluckt off the long feathers, she opened it with a muscle shell, cutting in the first place behind the right wing, and then above the stomach.  After that, drawing out the guts, she laid the liver a short time on the fire, and eat it almost raw.  She then cleaned the gizzard, which she eat quite raw, as she did the body of the bird.  Her children eat in the same manner, one being a girl of four years of age, and the other a boy, who, though only six months old, had most of his teeth, and could walk alone.[90] The woman looked grave and serious at her meal, though the seamen laughed heartily at her strange figure, and unusual mode of feeding.  She afterwards sat down on her heels like an ape; and she slept all gathered up in a heap, with her infant between her arms, having her breast in his mouth.  After keeping her two days on board, de Weert set her on shore, giving her a gown and cap, with necklace and bracelets of glass beads.  He gave her also a small mirror, a knife, a nail, an awl, and a few other toys of small value, with which she seemed much pleased.  He cloathed the boy also, and decorated him with glass beads of all colours; but carried the girl to Holland, where she died.  The mother seemed much concerned at parting with her daughter, yet went into the boat without resistance or noise.  She was carried to the shore, a league west from the ship, to a place which she pointed out, where the seamen found a fire and some utensils, which made the seamen believe that the savages had run away on seeing the boat.

[Footnote 90:  They had no means to ascertain his age, and must have concluded him only six months old from his small size; but from his teeth and walking alone, he was more likely to have been two years old, and his diminutive size was probably occasioned by the miseries of the climate, and wretchedness of every kind to which these outcasts of nature are subjected.—­E.]