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Faces all over as red as Vermillion, and commonly make a 

 circle of Black about one Eye, and another circle of White 

 about the others, whilst other bedaub their Faces with To- 

 bacco pijje Clay, Lamp hlach. Black Lead, and divers others 

 colours, such as Green, Blue, and the like, these they make 

 with several sorts of Herbs, Minerals, and Earths, that they 

 get in different parts of the Country where they Hunt and 

 Travel. When these People are thus Painted they make the 

 most frightful Figures that can be imitated by Men, and 

 seem more like Devils out of Hell than any human Creature 

 upon Earth, the reason why they thus Paint themselves is 

 because they believe it adds to their Courage and strikes a 

 terror in their Enemies. 



It is worthy of Observation, that whenever you meet them 

 thus disguis'd or Painted, you may be sure that they are 

 about some mischief or other, for in all Hostilities that have 

 ever been acted against the Christians at any time in sev- 

 eral of the Plantations of America, these Savages always 

 appear'd in these disguises, whereby they might never after 

 be discovered or known by the Christians that shoud happen 

 to see them after they had made their escape ; for it is impos- 

 sible ever to know an Indian under these Colours, although 

 he had been ever so often at your House, and you were most 

 intimatly acquainted with him before he put on this dis- 

 guise. 



As for the Women, they seldom or never use any Paint 

 on their Faces, except Bears-Grease, or Lamp-black, when 

 they mourn for their dead; neither do they carry their 

 Women along with them into the Field of Battle, or when 

 they intend any Expedition (as they do in many parts of 

 the Eastren Country) but always leave them at home with 

 the old Men and Children, to provide all manner of N"eees- 

 saries for them. By their different way of Painting, they 



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