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Verdigreafe, to paint their faces green. 

 For the black colour, they make ufe of the 

 foot at the hottom of their kettles, and daub 

 their whole face with it. 



Looking glaff'es. The Indians are very 

 much pleafed with them, and make ufe of 

 them chiefly when they want to paint therri- 

 felves. The men conftantly carry theif 

 looking glafles with them on all their jour-, 

 nies j but the women do not. The men, 

 upon the whole, are more fond of drefiing 

 than the women. 



Burning glajfis* Thefe are excellent 

 pieces of furniture in the opinion of the In- 

 dians ; becaufe they ferve to light the pipe 

 without any trouble, which an indolent In~ 

 <dian is very fond of. 



tobacco is bought by the northern Indians^ 

 in whofe country it will not grow. The 

 fouthern Indians always plant as much of it 

 as they want for their own confumption* 

 Tobacco has a great run amongft the nor- 

 thern Indians, and it has been obferved, that 

 the further they live to the northward, the 

 more they fmoke of tobacco. 



Wampum^ or, as they are here called, 

 porcelanes. They are made of a particular 

 kind of fhells, and turned into little fhort 

 cylindrical beads, and ferve the Indians for 

 money and ornament. 



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