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two ladles, and a bucket or two of bark, made 

 fo clofeas to keep water. The fturgeons were 

 cut into long Dices, and hung up in the fun- 

 fhine to dry, and to be ready againft winter. 

 The Indian women were fitting at their, 

 work on the hill, upon deer-fkins. They 

 never make ufe of chairs, but lit on the 

 ground : however, they do not fit crofs- 

 legged, as the 'Turks do, but between their 

 feet, which, though they be turned back- 

 wards, are not croffed, but bent outwards. 

 The women wear no head-drefs, and have 

 black hair. They have a fhort blue petti- 

 coat, which reaches to their knees, and the 

 brim of which is bordered with red or other 

 ribbands. They wear their fhifts over their 

 petticoats. They have large ear-rings : and 

 their hair is tied behind, and wrapped in 

 ribbands. Their Wampum, or Pearls, and 

 their money, which is made of (hells, are 

 tied round the neck, and hang down on the 

 breaft. This is their whole drefs. They 

 were now making feveral kinds of work of 

 fkins, to which they fowed the quills of the 

 American Porcupines, having dyed them black 

 or red, or left them in their original colour. 



Towards evening, we went from hence 

 to a farm clofe to the river, where we found 

 only one man, looking after the maize and 

 the fields ; the inhabitants being not yet 

 returned fmce the end of the war. 



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