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dance the dance of war*. All the young men 

 are painted red ; it is really curious to fee them 

 dance. He that exprelTcs by dance the difco* 

 very or the farprife, watches his enemy, keep- 

 ing in a Hooping pofture ♦, all at once he falh 

 Upon him, his club in hand, making horrible 

 cries, as is done in a real adion. His comrade 

 drops as if he were thunderilruck, fliffening all 

 his mufcles as an epileptic -, after which the 

 other reprefents, dancing, the method of fcalping 

 the dead enemy •, this is done with a knife which 

 he has in his hand, he makes an incifion on the 

 forehead, and round the neck of his enemy; he 

 places his long nails therein, he puts both his 

 knees againft the fhoulders of the captive, ao'j 

 wkh a fudden pufli with his knees and pull with 

 his hands, he takes up the fkin with the hair on 

 it, from the head. All this is reprefented in 

 finging and dancing to the tune of a drum and 



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■■" The Cong of war is conceived in the following terms : 

 *' I go to war to avenge the death of my brothers ; I fhall 

 *' kill, I fhall exterminate, I fliiall plunder, I fhall burn my 

 " enemies : I Hiall bring away fiaves, I fhall devour their 

 ?* heart, dry their fle(h, drink tiieir blood ; I /hall bring 

 *t their fcalps, andmake.cups of their fcuils ;" agj'd more 

 fuch expreflions, which rre full of cruelty, andftiev/ a thirll 

 ^fter revenge and flaughtcr. 



