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Indian that passes by, adds a stone to augment 

 tlie heap, in respect to the deceased hero. 



'W'e had a very large swamp to pass over near 

 the house, and would have hired our landlord to 

 have been our guide, but he seemed unwilling, so 

 we pressed him no farther about it. He was the 

 tallest Indian I ever saw, being seven feet high, 

 and a very straight complete person, esteemed on 

 by the king for his great art in hunting, always car- 

 rying with him an artificial head to hunt withal. 

 They are made of the head of a buck, the back part 

 of 9ie horns being scraped and hollow for the light- 

 ness of carriage. The skin is left to the setting 

 on of the shoulders, which is lined all round with 

 small hoops, and flat sort of laths, to hold it open 

 for the arms to go in. They have a way to pre- 

 serve the eyes, as if living. The hunter puts on a 

 match coat made of deer skin, with tlie hair on, 

 and a piece of the white part of the deer skin that 

 grows on the breast, which is fastened to the neck 

 end of this stalking head, so hangs down. In these 

 habiliments an Indian will go as near a deer as he 

 pleases, the exact motions and behaviour of a deer 

 being so well coiinterfeited by them, that several 

 times it hath been known for two hunters to come 

 ' up with a stalking head together, and unknown to 

 each other, so that they have killed an Indian in- 

 stead of a deer, which hath happened sometimes 

 to be a brother or some dear friend; for which rea- 

 son they allow not of that sort of practice where 

 the nation is populous. 



