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Their art of war confifts, as you fee, in vigi- 

 lance, attention to prevent furprife, and to at- 

 tack the enemy unprepared, in patience and 

 flrength to fupport hunger, third, the rigours 

 of the weather, and the labours and fatigues in- 

 feparable from war. 



He that has done a fine a6lion carries the 

 fcalp of his dead enemy as a trophy, and gets 

 the mark of it made on his body, then he 

 mourns for him, and during that time, which 

 lafts a month, he mud not comb himfelfj and 

 when his head itches, he is only allowed to fcratch 

 it with a little rod, which he ties to his wrift for 

 that purpofe. 



The Chactaws and their wives are very un* 

 cleanly, living chiefly in places at a diilance from 

 rivers. They have no kind of religious fervice, 

 they live v/ithout troubling their heads with fu- 

 turity, and however believe that they have an 

 immortal foul. They have a great veneration 

 for their dead, whom they do not bury. When a 

 ChaElavi dies, his corpfe is expofed upon a bier, 

 made on purpofe, of cyprefs bark, and placed 

 on four polls fifteen feet high. When the 

 worms have coniumed all the fiefli, the whole 

 family aflembles j fome one difmembers the fke- 



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