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justice and virtue, we can never bring them to "be- 

 lieve us to be a worthier race of men than them- 

 selves. 



The dresses of these people are so different, ac- 

 cording to the nation that they belong to, that it 

 is impossible to recount all the whimsical figures 

 that they sometimes make by their antic dresses. 

 Besides, Carolina is a warm country, and very 

 mild in its winters to what Virginia, Maryland, 

 Pensylvania, NQW York, the Jersies, and New 

 England are ; wherefore our Indian's habit very 

 much differs from the dresses that appear amongst 

 the savages who inhabit those cold countries ; in 

 regard their chiefest clothing for the winter sea- 

 sons is made of the furs of beever, raccoon and 

 other northern furs, that our climate is not ac- 

 quainted withal, they producing some furs as the 

 monack, moor, marten, black fox, and others to us 

 unknown. 



Their dress in peace and war is quite different. 

 Besides, when they go to war, their hair is combed 

 out by the women and done over very much with 

 bear's grease and red root, with feathers, wings, 

 rings, copper, and peak, or wampum in their ears. 

 Moreover, they buy vermillion of the Indian tra- 

 ders, wherewith they paint their faces all over red, 

 and commonly make a circle of black about one 

 eye and another circle of white about the other, 

 whilst others bedawb their faces with tobacco pipe 

 clay, lamp black, black lead, and divers other col- 

 ors, which they make with the several sorts of 



