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not fo tall as the Hurons. I have not feen 

 any Indians whofe hair was as long and 

 flrait as theirs. Their language is different 

 from that of the Hurons ; therefore there 

 is an interpreter here for them on purpofe. 

 THE Ames are the third kind of Indians 

 which came hither. Fifty of them went 

 out in the war, being allies of the Englifh^ 

 in order to plunder in the neighbourhood of 

 Montreal. But the French, being informed 

 of their fcheme, laid an ambum, and killed 

 with the finl difcharge of their guns forty- 

 four of them ; fo that only the four who 

 were here to-day faved their lives, and two 

 others, who were ill at this time. They 

 are as tall as the Hurons, whofe language 

 they fpeak. The Hurons feem to have a 

 longer, and the Anies a rounder face. The 

 Antes have fomething cruel in their looks ; 

 but their drefs is the fame as that of the 

 other Indians. They wear an oblong piece 

 of white tin between the hair which !ies on 

 the neck. One of thofe I faw had taken a 

 flower of the rofe mallow, out of a garden, 

 where it was in full bloffom at this time, 

 and put it among the hair at the top of his 

 head. Each of the Indians has a tobacco- 

 pipe of grey lime-ftone, which is blackened 

 afterwards, and has a long tube of wood. 

 There were no Indian women prefent at 

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