of North Carolina. 315 



Furs, Deer Skins, and other commodities which they have 

 acquired with so much pains and fatigue. I have known 

 several complaints to the Governor of such usage during my 

 abode in that Country, which shews the greatest ingratitude 

 in Nature, when we consider how ready these poor Creatures 

 are to serve and oblige us, in what ever assistance we want 

 from them. And that in most of the Colonies already 

 well PeopFd with Christians, it would be impossible for 

 them to live (for their own Slaves the Negroes wou'd destroy 

 them) only for them who upon all occasions are ready to 

 suppress them w^hen they Rebel against their Masters, which 

 they frequently do in Virginia and many other parts of 

 America belonging to the Crown of Eiigland. 



Their dresses are as different as the Nations to whom they 

 belong, so that it is impossible to recount all the whimsical 

 Figures that they commonly make by their Antick dresses. 

 Besides Carolina is a warm Country, and very mild in its 

 Winters to what Mary -Land, Pensilvania, New-York, the 

 Jersies, or New-England are, wherefore our Indian Habits 

 differ very much from the dresses that are used by the Sav- 

 ages that inliabit those cold Countries ; in regard their chief- 

 est cloathing for the Winter Season is made of the Furs of 

 Bevers, Raccoons, and other N orthr en-Furs, as the Monack- 

 Moor, Marten, Black-Fox, and many other Beasts that are to 

 be met with to the Northward, that we are unacquainted 

 with here. 



Their dress in Peace and War are quite different from 

 some Nations before they go to War, the Women comb out 

 their Hair and anoint it with Bears-grease, and the Red 

 Root, and likewise adorn it with Feathers of various beau- 

 tiful colours, besides Copper, Iron Rings, and sometimes 

 Wampum or Peak in their Ears. Moreover they buy red 

 Colours of the Indian Traders, wherewith they Paint their 



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