New Jerfey, Raccoon. 43 



Indians who are called Ingouez, and who, 

 according to father Charlevoix, live on the 

 other fide of the river Miflifippi*. The In- 

 dians themfelves commonly value a pipe of 

 this kind as much as a piece of filver of 

 the fame lize, and fome times they make 

 it ftill dearer. Of the fame kind of ftone 

 commonly confifls their pipe of peace, which 

 the French call cahimet de p ax, and which 

 they make ufe of in their treaties of peace, 

 and alliances. Moft authors who have 

 wrote of thefe nations mention this inftru- 

 ment, and I intend to fpeak of it when 

 an opportunity offers. 



The Indians employ hooks made of 

 bone, or bird's claws, inftead of fifhing- 

 books. Some of the oldeft Swedes here 

 told me, that when they were young, a 

 great number of Indians had been in this 

 part of the country, which was then called 

 New Sweden, and had caught fifties in the 

 river Delaware, with thefe hooks. 



They made fire by rubbing one end of 

 a hard piece of wood continually againft 

 another dry one, till the wood began to 

 fmoke, and afterwards to burn. 



Such were the tools of the antient In- 

 dians, and the ufe which they made of 



them, 



* See his Journal bijlorique d'un voyage tie Pdmeriqur. 

 Tome v. p. m. 311, and the 13th letter. 



