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and Screeches ; being ftrangely Painted, every one his Quiver of ArroWs, and ac 

 his Back a Club . on his Arm a Fox or an Ckters«skin, or ibme fuch matter for his 

 vambrace ■ their Heads and Shoulders Painted red, with Oyl and <Pocones mingled 

 together, which Scarlet.like colour, made an exceeding handlbme fhow ; hisBowc 

 in his Hand, and the Skin of a Bird with her Wings abroad dry'd, ty'd on his Head, 

 a piece of Copper, a white Shell, a long Feather, with a (mall Rattle growing at 

 the Tails of their Snaks ty'd fo it, or fome fuch like Toy. All this while Smith and 

 the King flood in the midft, guarded, as before is faid, and after three Dances they 

 all departed. Smith they conduced to a long Houfe, where thirty or forty tall Fel* 

 lows did guard him , and e're long , more Bread and Venifon was brought him 

 than would have ferv'd twenty Men, I think his Stomack at that time was not ve- 

 ry good - what he left, they put in Baskets and ty'd over his Head. About mid- 

 night they fee the Meat again before him j all this time none of them would eat a 

 bit with him, till the next Morning they brought him as much more, and then 

 did they cat all the old, and referv'd the new as they had done the other, which 

 made him think they would feed him for (laughter : Yet in this defperate eftate to 

 fend him from the cold, one Maocajfater brought him his Gown, in requital of fomc 

 Beads and Toys Smith had given him at his firft arrival in Vtrgtnia. 



Two days after a man would have (lain him (but that the Guard prevented it) 

 for the death of his Son, to whom they condu&ed him to recover the poor man 

 then breathing his laft. Smith told them, that at ]ames*Town he had a Water would 

 do it, if they would let him fetch it, but they would not permit that ; but made all 

 the preparations they could to aflault Jamcs-To^n , craving his advice, and for re«. 

 compence he fliould have Life, Liberty, Land, and Women. In part of a Table* 

 book he writ his mind to them at the Fort, what was intended, how they fliould 

 follow that direction to affright the melTengcrs, and without fail fend him fuch 

 things as he writ for, and an Inventory with them. The difficulty and danger, he 

 tola the Salvages, of the Mines, great Guns, and other Engines, exceedingly af- 

 frighted them, yet according to his Requeft they went to Jamcs'To^n^ in as bitter 

 weather as could be of Frofl; and Snow, and within three days return'd with an An* 

 Iwer. 



But when they came to James -Town, fteing Men fally out as he had told thfcni 

 they would, they fled; yet in the night they came again to the. fame place where 

 he had told them they fliould receive anfwer, and fuch things as he had promised 

 them, which they found accordingly, and with which they return'd with no fmall 

 expedition, to the wonder of them all, fuppofing that he could either Divine,or 

 the Paper could fpeak : then they led him to the Youthtanunds, the Matt ap anient /, the 

 <Pajankatanks, the Nantaughtacunds, and OnaTtmanients upon the Rivers of ^apahanock^ 

 and (pataibomek, through intricate ways, and back again by divers other feveralNa» 

 tions, to the Kings Habitation at Tamaunkee, where they entertain'd him with mod 

 ftrangc and fearful Conjurations. Not long after,early in the Morning, a great fire 

 was made in along Houfe , and a Mat fpread on each fide thereof; on the one 

 they caus'd him^»fit, and all the Guard went out of the Houfe, and prefently 

 there came skippmg in a great grim Fellow, all Painted over with Coal, mingled 

 with Oyl 5 and many Snakes and Wefelsskins (luff 'd with Mofs , and all their 

 Tails ty'd together, fo as they met on the Crown of his Head in a TafTel j and 

 round about the Taflel was a Coronet of Feathers , the Skins hanging round 

 about his Head, Back, and Shoulders, and in a manner cover'd his Face ; with a 

 helli^i voice, and a Rattle in his Hand. With moft ftrange geftures and paffions 

 "he began his Invocation, and environ'd the fire with a Circle of Meal* which 



done, 



