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have fince laid afide this cuftom, and built 

 all their houfes after the French fa&ion. 

 In each houfe are two rooms, 'viz. their 

 bed-room, and the kitchen on the outfide 

 before it. In the room is a fmall oven of 

 ftone, covered at top with an iron plate. 

 Their beds are near the wall, and they put 

 no other clothes on them, than thofe which 

 they are drelfed in. Their other furniture 

 and utenfils, look equally wretched. Here 

 is a fine little church, with a fteeple and 

 bell. The fteeple is raifed pretty high, 

 and covered with white tin plates. They 

 pretend, that there is fome fimilarity be- 

 tween this church in its figure and difpo- 

 fition, and the Santa Cafa, at Loretto in 

 Italy, from whence this village has got its 

 name. Clofe to the church is a houfe 

 built of ftone, for the clergymen, who 

 are two Jefuits, that conftantly live here. 

 The divine fervice is as regularly attended 

 here,as in any other Roman catholic church; 

 and I was pleafed with feeing the alacrity 

 of the Indians, efpecially of the women, 

 and hearing their good voices, when they 

 fing all forts of hymns in their own lan- 

 guage. The Indians drefs chiefly like the 

 other adjacent Indian nations ; the men, 

 however, like to wear waiftcoats, or jackets, 

 like the French. The women keep exaclly 

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