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represent most of the Actions in Life, such as War, Peace, 

 Feasts, Death, and the like, using diiferent Colours or Paint- 

 ings suitable to each occasion. When they are thus Painted, 

 they go to Battle in the following manner : Each Man takes 

 his Gun, and a sufficient quantity of Powder and Ball, or 

 if he has not these, his Bow (which is about an Ell long) 

 and arrow^s, about eighteen Inches, made of small Canes, 

 some of them are very artificially headed with sharp Stones, 

 Shells, Teeth of Fish, or hardned after their manner, the 

 other End being Feathered with two Eeathers, and tied with 

 the Guts of some Beast when green and moist ; each of them 

 has likewise a Tamahawlc or small Hatchet, and Cutlashes, 

 when they can get them purchased by any means from the 

 Europeans. They also use Clubs or long Poles (in the ends 

 whereof they fasten very artificially sharp Stones, or the 

 Horns of Beasts) and wooden Swords, hardened after their 

 manner ; sometimes they have wooden Breast-plates for their 

 defence; these being all the Weapons that are made use of 

 amongst the civilized, and Savage Indians in these parts. 



The way of waging War is so harsh, that one must have a 

 Body of Steel to bear the Fatigues they are obliged to un- 

 dergo. They give but little Quarters, and if they are taken 

 Prisoners, they are never exchanged: When one Xation is 

 engaged in War with another, there is little Valour used, 

 though they accomplish notable Exploits by Craft and Strat- 

 agem, for they do not attack each other by open Force, but 

 dividing themselves into small Parties, twenty five or thirty 

 Men lie in Ambush near the Village they design to attack, 

 'till ]^ight, then they set upon the Huts that lie dispersed in 

 the open Country, if they meet with any aged Men they kill 

 them, cut off their Heads, Hands, and Feet, nay, if they 



have 



