222 AN ACCOUNT orf some 
I might have added a great number of informations, from 
travellers, concerning various tribes. of Indians; ; their 
cultoms, their languages, &c. fuch as that there are Indians 
who {peak the Welth language; that there are others who 
live in works fimilar to the ancient remains, already de- 
fcribed ; that thereare Indians wholive a fhepheard-life, and 
others who entirely cultivate the foil. But I have not fuch 
full affurance of the truth of thefe things as to authorife 
me in reporting them. 
i have, thus, according to the beft of my abilities, given 
every information in my power, on the various inquiries in 
your favor. I have little expectation of there being any 
thing new in them, or which will give lighton the fubjeéts: 
but juch as they are, pleafe to accept them as-my earneft 
endeavours to ferve you. 
With every fentiment of refped, 
lam, Si, 
Your moft Obedient and 
Humble Servant, 
JONATHAN HEART. 
N°. XXVI. 
in Account of fome of the principal Dies employed by the 
North-American Indians. Extracted from a paper, by 
the late Mr. Hugh Martin. 
Read O€. HE Indians die their red with a flender root, 
lata which is called in the language of the Shaw= 
anoes Hau ta the caugh. Upon my fhowing a fpeci- 
men 
