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t fhould probably have had more Pleafure in feeing the 

 n Dance of ^^^^^ Difcouery : It has more Adion, 



, jî.r- and expreffes better than the foregoing the 



the Vijco^very, Subjea it reprefents. It is a natural Repre« 

 fentation of all thatpalTes in an Expedition of War; and, as I 

 have before obferved, that the Savages for the greateil Part only 

 eijdeavour to furprife their Enemies, this is no Doubt the 

 Rfeafon why they have given this Dance the Name of the Dif^ 

 cà^ery. 



However that may be, only one iingle Man performs this 

 Dan€0 : At firll he advances flovvly into the midfl of the Place, 

 wher^\he remains for fome Time motionlefs, after which he re-, 

 prefents bne after another, the Setting out of the Warriors, the 

 March, the Encamping; he goes upon the Difcovery, he makes 

 his Approach, he flops as to take Breath, then all on a fudden 

 he grov/s furious, and one would imagine he was going to kill 

 every Body; then he appears more calm, and takes one of the 

 Company as if he had made him a Prifoner of War ; he makes 

 a Shew of knocking another's Brains out ; he levels his Gun at 

 another; and laftly, he fets up a running with all his Might; 

 then he Hops and recovers himfelf : This is to reprefent a Re- 

 treat, at firil: precipitate, and afterwards lefs fo. Then he 

 exprefles by different Cries the various Affedions of his Mind 

 during his laft Campaign, and finilhes by reciting all the brave 

 Aélions he has performed in the W"ar. 



When the Dance of the Calumet is intended, as it generally 



^„ ; . is, to conclude a Peace, or a Treaty of Al~ 



Of the Treaties -a t? A 



r / x , , liance apfainil a common Enemy, tney grave 



<nivioîch are made by ^ ^ ^i, '-r u r*.u -r - a r ^ 



-nf „ ; ^ a Serpent on the Tube or the i ipe, and fet 



Means of the Dance c-j c. t> j i,'u- 



r I, A y f. on one bide of it a Board, on which is repre- 



0/ the calumet. ^^^^^^ ^^^^ y^^^ ^^^^ confederate Na^ 



tions, with the Enemy under their Feet, difîinguifned by the 

 Mark of his Nation. Sometimes inftead of a Calumet, they fet 

 up a Fighting-Club. But if it concerns only a fmgle Alliance, 

 they reprefent two Men joining one Hand, and holding in the 

 other a Calumet of Peace, and having each at his Side the Mark 

 of his Nation. In all thefe Treaties they give mutual Pledges, 

 Necklaces, Calumets, Slaves ; fometimes Elks, and Deer Skins 

 well dreffed, and ornamented with Figures made with Porcupines 

 Hair; and then they reprefent on thefe Skins the Things I have 

 mentioned, either with Porcupines Hair, or plain Colours. 

 There are other Dances lefs compounded, the only Defign of 

 Other D f w^ich is to give the Warriors an Oppoy- 

 ^er ances. tunity of relating all their brave Aélions. 

 This is what the Savages are mofl ready to do, and they are 

 never tired of it. He that gives the Feaft invites all tne Vil. 



