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bearing arms. Their cloathing was skins, well-dress- 

 ed. Their houses were made cf upright posts, and 

 the bark of trees. The only implement they had to 

 cut them with, were stone tomahawks. They had 

 no iron ; their arms were bows and arrows. They 

 had some silver, which had been hammered with 

 stones into coarse ornaments, but it did not appear 

 to be pure. They had neither horses, cattle, sheep, 

 hogs, nor any domestic nor tame animals. They 

 lived by hunting. He said nothing about their re- 

 ligion. 



Griffith and his companions had some large iron 

 tomahawks with them. With these they cut down a 

 tree, and prepared a canoe to return home in : but 

 their tomahawks were so great a curiosity, and the 

 people of the country were so eager to handle them, 

 that their canoe was completed with very little labour. 

 When this work was accomplished, they proposed to 

 leave their new friends : Griffith, however, having 

 promised to visit them again. 



They descended the river with considerable speed, 

 but amidst frequent dangers, from the rapidity of the 

 current, particularly when passing through the White- 

 Mountains. When they reached the Shawnees na- 

 tion, they had been absent about two years and a 

 half. Griffith supposed, that when they travelled, 

 they went at the rate of about fifteen miles per day. 



He staid but a few months with the Indians after 

 his return, as a favourable opportunity offered itself 



