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is no more esteemed amongst them, than any oth- 

 er ordinary fellow, provided he has no personal 

 endowments which are the ornaments that must 

 gain him an esteem among them ; for a great deal- 

 er amongst the Indians, is no otherwise respected 

 and esteemed than as a man that strains his wits 

 and fatigues himself to furnish others with neces- 

 saries of life that live much easier and enjoy more 

 of the world than he himself does with all his pelf. 

 If they are taken captives and expect a miserable 

 exit, they sing ; if death approach them in sick- 

 ness, they are not afraid of it ; nor are ever heard 

 to say, grant me some time. They know by in- 

 stinct, and daily example, that they must die; 

 wherefore they have that great and noble gift to 

 submit to everything that happens, and value noth- 

 ing that attacks them. 



Their cruelty to their prisoners of war is what 

 they are seemingly guilty of an error in, I mean 

 as to a natural failing, because they strive to in- 

 vent the most inhuman butcheries for them that 

 the devils themselves could invent or hammer out 

 of hell ; they esteeming death no punishment, but 

 rather an advantage to him, that is exported out 

 of this into another world. 



Therefore, they inflict on them torments, where- 

 in they prolong life in that miserable state as long 

 as they can, and never miss skulping of them as 

 they call it, which is, to cut off the skin from the 

 temples and taking the whole head of hair 

 along with it, as if it was a night-cap. Sometimes 



