They are of a clear copper colour, have long, ſleek, black hair on their heads; their perſons are ſhort, ſtout, and well made; but they disfigure their faces by preſſing flat their noſes, which is done in their infancy. They are a very quiet, inoffenſive people, ſpeak a language of their own, and French, but none of them ſpeak Engliſh.
They live chiefly by fiſhing in the rivers and the ſea, or by fowling in the woods, at both of which they are very expert with their bows and arrows. They will kill the ſmalleſt bird with an arrow, or transfix a fiſh at a great depth in the ſea; and are very ſerviceable to the planters near their ſettlement, whom they chiefly ſupply with fiſh and game. They are alſo very ingenious, making curious wrought panniers, or baſkets of ſilk graſs, or the bark of trees.
