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club •, and a little hatchet, which they make ufc 

 of in order to make huts in the woods. 



Their arms confift of a gun or mufket, the 

 horn of an ox to put the gun-powder in, which 

 they hang round the body with a firing, toge- 

 ther with a little bag in which they put their 

 balls, the flint, and a fcrew •, befides this, a bow 

 and a quiver full of arrows •, the latter are very 

 wfeful for hunting. They never employ their 

 fire-arms at any animals, when they are upon any 

 expedition againft their enemies, left the noife 

 might ferve to difcover them. They agree 

 amongft themfelves upon the method of furpri- 

 iing their enemies ; for the Indians place all 

 their glory in the knowledge of this kind of war, 

 which is generally fatal to thofe who are the ob- 

 je6i: of it. 



They take very little care with regard to vic- 

 tuals ; every one has a little bag of flour of In- 

 dian corn or maize, roafted as we do coffee, 

 and when he is hungry he takes a fpoonful of 

 water in which fome of this flour or meal is 

 diluted, which he keeps till they are very near 

 the enemy. 



though 



