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thine: Avhereof you ask tliem, thev will wink or cover their 

 Eyes with their Hand to intimate thereby that it hath been 

 hid from their sight, and if they understand not those things 

 whereof you enquire, they will stop their Ears, and by many 

 other such like signs, easie to be understood, they are apt to 

 learn any thing of us, and are very willing to teach us the 

 Names of each thing in their Language we demand of them. 



All their dwelling Houses are covered with the Barks of 

 Trees, But this Senate-House differs very much from them, 

 being artificially Thatch'd with Sedge and Rushes; at the 

 buildiufi: whereof every one assists till it is finished, and as 

 soon as it is compleatly finished, the King places some one 

 of his chiefest Men to dwell therein, charging him with a 

 diligent preservation thereof, in like manner as European 

 Princes commit the charge and Government of Forts and 

 Castles to some favorite subject they judge worthy of so great 

 Honours and Trust. 



They frequently send Ambassadors to each other, who 

 make very odd and strange Figures at their Arrival, having 

 their Faces and Hair painted all over as red as Vermillion, 

 a Fusee or Bow and Arrows in their Hands, and a Cutlash or 

 Tamaliawh stuck in their Girdle. As soon as they arrive 

 they are brought to the Kings House, from thence are con- 

 ducted to the State-House, where they take the place that is 

 assigned them, and there treat of those important Affairs 

 with which they are commission' d from their Kings and 

 i^ations to Avhom they belong. 



I have frequently made use of the word Civilized Indians, 

 and for the better information of my Readers they are those 

 that assisted the Christians against the other Savages of that 

 Country in the late War when the Hon. Colonel Barnwell in- 

 tirely defeated them in Bath County, Anno Dom. 1712. 



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