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which hung like trefles, or a horfe niane , for that they 

 applyed this vndion wet and moyft. Their hairegrew 

 fo, as in time it hung downe to their ham rues , fo hea- 

 yily , that it was troublefome for them to beare it , for 

 they did never cut it, vntill they dted,or that they were 

 difpenfed with for their great age , or being employed 

 in governments or fbrne honorable charge in the com 

 monwealth. They carried their haire in treffes, of fixe 

 fingers breadth /which they died blacke with the fum? 

 of iapine 5 or firre trees, or refine- for in all Antiquirie it ^ 

 hath bin an offring they made vnto their idolls, and for 

 this caufeit was much efteemed and reverenced. They 

 were alwayes died with this tin&urefrom the footcto 

 the head, fo as they were like vnto (bining Negroes, 

 and that was their ordinary vndion : yet vvhcnas they 

 went to facrifice and give incenfe in the mountaines,or 

 on the tops thereof,or in any darke and obfcure caves, 

 where their idoHes were , they vfed an other kindc of 

 vnftion very different, doing certaine ceremonies to 

 take away feare, and to give them courage . This vqc- 

 tion was made with diverfe little venomous beaftcs, as 

 fpiders, fcorpions, palmers, falamandersand vipers,the 

 which the boyes in the Colledges tooke and gathered 

 together , wherein they were fo expert , as they werc 

 alwayes furnifhed when the Prieftcs called for them. 

 The chiefe care of theft boyes was , to hunt after thefe 

 beads; if they went any other way, and by chaunce 

 met with any of thefe beads, they flayed to take them, 

 with as great paine, as if their lives depended thereon. 

 Bythereafon whereof the Indians commonly feared 

 not thefe venomous bcafts, making no more accompt 

 than if they were not fo , having beene all bred in this 

 cxercife. To make an ointment of thefe beaftes , they 



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