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for when they come to clofe engagement, they 

 fight very coolly. Some of their women are fo 

 fond of their hufbands as to go into the war$ 

 with them. They (land by their fides in the 

 battle, with a quiver full of arrows, and encou? 

 rage them continually by telling them, they 

 ought not to fear their enemies^ but die as tru$ 



men 



The Cha5faws are very fuperftitious -, when 

 they go to war they confult their Manitou^ who 

 is carried by the chief. They always expofe him 

 to that fide where they ^re to go tov/ards the ene- 

 my, and place fome warriors as fentinels round 

 him. They have fucb a veneration for him, that 

 |:hey do not eat till the chief has given him firft 

 bis fliare. 



During the continuance of the war, they obey 

 their chief very exactly » but as foon as they re- 

 turn, they only confider him according to the 

 liberality with which h.e difpofes of his pror 

 perty. 



It is a cuilom among thiem^ that. when the 

 chief of a party of warriors has got booty from 

 the enemy, he muft didribute it to the warriors^ 

 j?ndto the relations of thofe who have been kill: 



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