• î4^ Hljîorical Journal of 



From the Time that the Refolution is taken to make War^, 

 A T\ r 'J..' ^ till the Departure of the Warriors, they finp; 

 JDe/cnpmnof ^^^^^ War-Songs every Night : The Days 

 the Racquets for rr j - i • -n ' rm_ 



^ , are palled in makins: Preparations. They 



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S ouj" and of th'' ^^P^^^ lome Warriors to go to ling the War^ 

 Skdr^es 'fhr carr ^ ^^^S amongâ their Neighbours and Allies, 

 ' ^^'^th Ba ^^a'^e' ^'^^^^ engage beforehand by fecret Ne- 

 mg e ^gg^^^* gociations. If they are to go by Water, they 

 build, or repair their Canoes : If it is Winter they furnilh them^ 

 felves with Snow Shoes and Sledges. The Raquets which they 

 muil: have to walk on the Snow are about three Feet long, and 

 jiabout fifteen or lixteen Inches in their greateft Breadth. Their 

 Shape is oval, excepting the End behind, which terminates in.a 

 Point; little Sticks placed acrofs at five or fix Inches from each 

 End, ferve to llrengthen them, and the Piece which is before is 

 in the Shape of a Bow, where the Foot is fixed, and tied with 

 Leather Thongs. The Binding of the Raquet is made of Slips of 

 Leather about a fixth Part of an Inch wide, and the Circumference 

 as of light Wood hardened by Fire. To walk well with thefe Ra- 



Îuets, they muft turn their Knees a little inwards, and keep their 

 iCgs wide afunder. It is fome Trouble to accuftom ones felf 

 to it, but Vk^hen one is ufed to it, one v/alks with as much Eaf^ 

 and as little Fatigue as if one had nothing on -ones Feet, It is 

 not pofiible to ufe the Raquets with our comniOB- Shoes, we 

 piufl take thofe of the Savages., which are a Kind of S ^ : adc 

 of Skins dried in the Smoke, folded over at the End ci l= ;t, 

 aiid tied with Strings. The Sledges which ferve to c.xrry die 

 Baggage, and in Cafe of Need the fick and wounded, are two lit^ 

 tie Boards, very thin, about half a Foot broad each Board, and fi;< 

 or feven Feet long. The fore Part is a little bent upwards, and the 

 Sides are bordered by little Bands* to which they fallen Straps 

 to bind what is upon the Sledge. However loaded thefe Car- 

 riages may be, a Savage can draw them with Eafe by the Help 

 of a long Band of Leather, which he puts over his Breafl, and 

 which they call Collars. They draw Burdens this Way, and th^ 

 Mothers ufe them to carry Children with their Cradles, but 

 then it is over their Foreheads that the Band is fixed. 

 All Things being ready, and the Day of Departure being come, 

 „ „ ^ they take their Leave with great Demonftra- 

 jheFare^-ujedof Tendernefs. Every Body de^ 



the Warriors, ^^^^^ fomething that has been ufed the 

 Warriors, and in Return give them Ibme Pledges of their f riend- 

 Ihip, and AITurançes of a perpetual Remembrance^ They fcarce 

 enter any Cabin, but they take away their Robe to give them a 

 better, at leaft one as good. Laftly, they all meet at the Cabin 

 mi ihe Chief ; They find him armed as he was the firft Day he 



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