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think will be ferviceable; particularly iron hoops, 
{mall bolts, {fpikes, carpenters tools, and, in fhort, 
all {mall pieces of iron-work which they can turn 
to advantage, either for their own ufe, or for the 
purpofe of trading with fuch of their country- 
men as feldom vifit the Company’s Settlement: 
among themfelves, however, the crime of theft is 
feldom heard of. 
When two parties of thofe Indians meet, the 
ceremonies which pafs between them are quite 
different from thofe made ufe of in Europe on 
fimilar occafions ; for when they advance within 
twenty or thirty yards of each other, they make 
a full halt, and in general fit or lie down on 
the ground, and do not fpeak for fome minutes. 
At length one of them, generally an elderly man, 
if any bein company, breaks filence, by acquaint- 
ing the other party with every misfortune that — 
has befallen him and his companions from the — 
laft time they had feen or heard of each other; 
and alfo of all deaths and other calamities that 
have befallen any other Indians during the fame 
period, at leaft as many particulars as have come 
to his knowledge. 
When the firft has finifhed his oration, another 
aged orator, (if there be any) belonging to the 
other party relates, in like manner, all the bad 
news that has come to his knowledge; and both 
parties never fail to plead poverty and famine on 
all occafions. If thofe orations contain any news 
that in the leaft affect the other party, it is not 
long 
