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The afTembly is held in the middle of the vil- 

 lage, in a great hut made on purpofe, which 

 they call the hut of the council. The chief 

 and mofl confiderabie men place themfelves, ac- 

 cording to their refpedive ranks, on mats or on 

 tyger-lkins. When they are all feated, the 

 chief or orator puts himifelf into the midft of the 

 alTembly, and holds his fpeech with a loud 

 voice : he reprefents to his nation, that it would 

 be a fhame for them not to revenge the affront 

 they received from fuch or fuch a nation -, that 

 if ehey did take them to account for it, they 

 would for the future be looked upon as w^o- 

 men *. At that inflant all the afTembly ap- 

 plauds, by faying, Heu ! hen ! The chief then 

 takes a bundle of rods, and prelents it to the 

 afTembly •, all that are defirous of going to war 

 take one of the rods, and by this means they are 

 enlifced. 



The next morning the women run through 

 the village, crying, " Young men and warriors, 

 " who received the rods, fet out, go to war, re- 

 " venge the deaths of our relations, allies, and 



" friends ; 



* When an Indian is called a vjoman or an olii ivomant it 

 is an affront, which fignifies a man without courage, a 

 coward. 



