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Verdtgreafe, to paint their faces green. 

 For the black colour, they make ule of the 

 foot at the bottom of their kettles, and daub 

 their whole face with it. 



Looking glaffes. The Indians are very 

 much pleafed with them, and make ufe of 

 them chiefly v/hen they want to paint them- 

 felves. The men conftantly carry their 

 looking glalTes with them on all th^rir jour- 

 nies ; but the women do not. The men, 

 upon the whole, are more fond of dreffing 

 than the women. 



Burning glajjes. Thefe are excellent 

 pieces of furniture in the opinion of the /;z- 

 dians \ becaufe they ferve to light the pipe 

 without any trouble, which an indolent /;;- 

 dian is very fond of. 



tobacco is bought by the northern Indianst 

 in whofe country it will not grow. The 

 fouthern Indians always plant as much of it 

 as they want for their own confumption. 

 Tobacco has a great run amongll the nor- 

 thern hidians, and it has been obferved, that 

 the further they live to the northward, the 

 more they fmoke of tobacco. 



Wampufn^ or, as they are here called, 

 porcelanes. They are made of a particular 

 kind of (hells, and turned into little rtiort 

 cylindrical beads, and ferve the hidiafis fur 

 money and ornament. 



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