44 ~~ Bringier on the Region fe Mesisvipp Se. 
American scalps, which ‘many times he deftvared without 
counting; for he had never penetrated into any houses, 
oe finding children more ue he needed for the pres- 
en 
This was during the Indian war it is true, bat Sie would 
not revolt at hearing a'monster in human shape, boast of 
having slaughtered seventy or eighty harmless women and 
children, to ‘redeem himself from punishment for the mur- 
der of his companions. I could not restrain myself from 
— him, that his pier of such atrocious deeds had 
the mask which hid the blackness of his soul. 
(They make use of wooden ‘ines in their dances.) 
Yellow Wood, resembling Fustic. 
I have omitted to mention, that on the Arkansas abel on 
Red river, we have a ian quantity of a yellow wood an- 
swering perfectly well the same purpose as the fustis i 
called bois ¢ eaery tie Bronte unters, (bow 
rus genus, with some modifications.* The wood is as tou aeh 
as whale bone. The Indians made, and asald make, all thea 
bows of the wood of that tree. 
We have likewise the tree which gives the vegetable 
eaoutchouc or elastic gum. ‘This tree is the same that 
they have in Peru, which they eall Higera del oule 5. the 
Sor of this tree Hectcacetaan and | 
poistecins ihe’ hen 5 the tags SRS ee a he 
pin oak ; it bears a black olive, a little: smaller than the com- 
mon olive; it is sweet and good to eat, the birds and the 
ears being fond of it. The French hunters on the Arkan- 
cadet el gomme; it is egress known by chewing a 
ita pene of the. sai ei is washed ene the rotten 
igneous substance is gone, the remainder is pure. Some 
mericans, to whom . ‘Gare. magie, it know, on ane hosel 
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