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added, that in his country they fpoke to their 

 enemies with the club in then* hands, as foon as 

 the hatchet is dug up -, a phrafe which denotes, 

 that nobody ought to have any commerce or cor- 

 refpondence with the enemy, diredly or in- 

 directly, under any pretence whatfoever, after 

 war is declared, unlefs he will prove a traitor 

 to his country, and be punifhed accordingly. 



When peace is concluded they bury the 

 hatchet or the club under ground, fignifying 

 thereby that all their hatred tov/ards their ene- 

 mies is buried in oblivion, that the horrors of 

 war are at an end, and that friendlhip and 

 good underftanding are growing again between 

 them and their friends, like the white flowers of 

 their tree of peace, (which is the white laurel), 

 that ought to fpread its branches over the white 

 ground •, which is a metaphorical expreflion 

 which means the ground of peace. 



The cacique I mentioned before, is called 

 TamathlemingOy and he is very warm in the 

 French intereft. I know that he has fcornfuUy 

 rejedled the prefents which fome Engliflimen 

 would have loaded him with, and he had a great 

 mind to break their heads for making him ("uch 

 a propofuion. He wears a filver m^dal failiened 



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