In November, 1624, among the cargo of the first laden vessel from New to Old Amsterdam were 7246 beaver-skins, 675 skins of otters, 48 of mink, 36 wild-cat and various other sorts. In Wassenares' " History of the New Netherlands," it is narrated : " The tribes are in the habit of clothing themselves with otter-skins, the fur inside, the smooth side without ; which, however, they paint so beautifully that at a distance it resembles lace. When they bring their commodities to the tradci-s, and find they are desirous to buy them, they make so little matter of it that they rip up the skins they are clothed with and sell them also, returning naked to their homes. They use the beaver-skins mostly for the sleeves and the otter for the rest of the clothes." Their most elegant garments were mantles made of feathers, overlapping each other, as upon the birds themselves. Sometimes these were artistic productions of real beauty. They made leggins and moccasins of deer-skins. The men always went bare-headed, and, in the summer, wore nothing beside a short garment about the loins, called, by the white settlers, " Indian breeches." The women dressed their glossy hair in a thick, heavy plait. Their dress usually consisted of two garments, -- a leather shirt and a skirt of the same material fastened around the waist, with a belt and reaching below the knees. From these various considerations, we can

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