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A JOURNEY TO THE 
laft, it was curious to fee how they flocked about 
mie, and exprefled as much defire to examine me 
from top to toe, as an European Naturalift would 
a‘non-defcript animal. They, however, found 
and pronounced me to bea perfect human being, 
except in the colour of my hair and eyes: the 
former, they faid, was like the ftained hair of a 
buffaloe’s tail, and the latter, being light, were 
like thofe of a gull. The whitenefs of my fkin — 
alfo was, in their opinion, no ornament, as they 
faid it refembled meat which had been fodden in 
water till all the blood was extracted. On the 
whole, I was viewed as fo great a curiofity in this 
part of the world, that during my ftay there, 
whenever I combed my head, fome or other of © 
them never failed to afk for the hairs that came 
off, which they carefully wrapped up, faying, 
“*- When I fee you again, you fhall again fee your 
“¢- hair. 
The day after our arrival at Congecathawha- _ 
chaga, Matonabbee difpatched his brother, and 
feveral Copper Indians, to Copper-mine River, 
with orders to acquaint any Indians they might 
meet, with the reafon of my vifiting thofe parts, 
and alfo when they might probably expect us at 
that river. By the bearers of this meflage | fent 
a prefent of tobacco and fome other things, toin- 
duce any ftrangers they met to be ready to give 
us affiftance, either by advice, or in any other way 
which might be required. 
‘As Matonabbee and the other Indians thought 
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