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confiderably by their trade in mufkets and 

 ammunition. 



Pieces of white cloth, or of a coarfe un- 

 cut cloth. The Indians conftan^ly wear 

 fuch pieces of cloth, wrapping them round 

 their bodies. Sometimes they hang them 

 over -their moulders; in warm weather* 

 they faften them round the middle ; and in. 

 cold weather, they put them over the head. 

 Both their men and women wear thefe 

 pieces of cloth, which have commonly fe- 

 veral blue or red ftripes on the edge. 



Blue or red cloth. Of this the Indian 

 women make their petticoats, which reach 

 only to their knees. They generally chufe 

 the blue colour. 



Shirts and foifts of linen. As foon as an 

 Indian fellow, or one of their women, have 

 put on a fiiirt, they never warn it, or ft rip 

 it off, till it is entirely torn in pieces. 



Pieces of cloth, which they wrap 'round 

 their legs inilead of ftockings, like the 

 Ruffians. 



Hatchets, knives, fciffars, needles, and a 

 Jleel to Jlrike fire with. Thefe inftruments 

 are now common among";the Indians. They 

 all take thefe inflruments from the Europe- 

 ans, and reckon the hatchets and knives 

 much better, than thofe which they for- 

 merly made of ftones and bones. The 



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