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afking their antagonift, which hand it is in? 
When playing at this game, which only admits 
of two perfons, each of them have ten, fifteen _ 
or twenty {mall chips of wood, like matches; and — 
when one of the players gueffes right, he takes — 
one of his antagonift’s fticks, and lays it to his - 
own; and he that firft gets all the flicks from 
the other in that manner is faid to win the game, | 
which is generally for a fingle load of powder | 
and fhot, an arrow, or fome other thing of incon- 
fiderable value. | 
The women never mix in any of their diverfi- 
ons, not even in dancing ; for when that is re- 
quired of them, they always exhibit without the: 
tent, as has been already obferved; nor are they’ 
allowed to be prefent at a feaft. Indeed, the 
whole courfe of their lives is one continued fcene| 
of drudgery, viz. carrying and hauling heavy 
loads, drefling fkins for clothing, curing their 
provifions, and practifing other neceflary dome- 
ftic duties which are required in a family, with. 
out enjoying the leaft diverfion of any kind, on) 
relaxation, on any occafion whatever ; and except) 
in the execution of thofe homely duties, in whick 
they are always inftructed from their infancy! 
their fenfes feem almoft as dull and frigid as the 
zone they inhabit. There are indeed fome ex) 
ceptions to be met with among them, and I fup) 
pofe it only requires indulgence and precept tc 
make fome of them as lofty and infolent as any 
womer 
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