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minerals and earths that they get in different parts 

 of the country, where they hunt and travel. When 

 these creatures are thus painted, they make the 

 most frightful figures that can be imitated by men, 

 and seem more like devils than human creatures. 

 You may be sure that they are about some mis- 

 chief when you see them thus painted ; for in all 

 the hostilities which have ever been acted against 

 the English at any time in several of the planta- 

 tions of America, the savages always appeared in 

 this disguise, whereby they might never after be 

 discovered or known by any of the Christians that 

 should happen to see them after they had made 

 their escape ; for it is impossible ever to know an 

 Indian under these colors, although he has been 

 at your house a thousand times, and you know 

 him at other times as well as you do any person 

 living. As for their women, they never use any 

 paint on their faces ; neither do they ever carry 

 them along with them into the field, when they 

 intend any expedition, leaving them at home with 

 the old men and children. 



Some of the Indians wear great bobs in their 

 ears, and sometimes in the holes thereof they put 

 eagles and other birds, feathers, for a trophy. 

 When they kill any fowl, they commonly pluck 

 off the downy feathers, and stick them all over 

 their heads. Some (both men and women) wear 

 great necklaces of their money made of shells. 

 They often wear bracelets made of brass, and 

 sometimes of iron wire. 



