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has been greafed, like Powder. They add to this Feathers of all 

 Colours, and Bunches of the Hair of divers Animals, all placed 

 in an odd Manner. The Placing of their Hair, fometimes Hand- 

 ing up like Briftles on one Side, and flatted on the other, or 

 dre/Ted in a thoufand different Fafhions, Pendants in their Ears, 

 and fometimes in their Noftrils, a great Shell of Porcelain hang- 

 ing about their Neck, or on their Breaft, fome Crowns made of 

 the Plumage of fcarce Birds, the Claws, Feet, or Heads of 

 Birds of Prey, little Horns of Roe-Bucks, all thefe Things 

 make up their Finery. But whatever they have moft precious is 

 always employed to adorn the Captives when thefe Wretches 

 make their firil Entry into the Village of their Conquerors. 

 It is obfervable that the Men take very little Pains to adorn 



The Ornaments "^^^^ ^^^^^ Heads. It is juft the Re- 



^1 w ^ verfe with the Women : They wear fcarcely 



^ any Thing on it, they are only rond ot their 



Hair, and they would think themfelves difgraced if it was cut 

 off ; therefore, when at the Death of a Relation they cut off 

 Part of it, they pretend by this to ihew the -greateft Grief for 

 their Lofs. To preferve their Hair they greafe it often, and 

 powder it with the Dufi of Spruce Bark, and fometimes with 

 Vermilion, then they wrap it up in the Skin of an Eel or 

 a Serpent, in the Falhion of Whifkers, which hang down to 

 their Waift. As to their Faces, they are fatisfied with tracing- 

 fome Lines on them with Vermilion, or other Colours. 



Their Noilrils are never bored, and it is only among fome Na- 

 tions that they bore their Ears ; then they wear in them Pendants, x 

 as do alfo the Men, made of Beads of Porcelain. When they are 

 drefîed in their greateit Finery, they have Robes painted with 

 all Sorts of Figures, v/ith little Collars of Porcelain fet on them 

 without much Order or Symmetry, with a Kind of Border tole- 

 rably worked with Porcupine's Hair, which they paint alfo of 

 Various Colours. They adorn in the fame Manner the Cradles 

 of their Children, and they load them with all Sorts of Trin- 

 kets. Thefe Cradles are made of light Wood, and have at the 

 Upper End one or two Semicircles of Cedar, that they may co- 

 ver them without touching the Head of the Child. 



Befides the Houfliold Work, and providing Wood for Fuel, 

 the Women have almoft always the fole Trouble of cultivating 

 the Lands : As foon as the Snow is melted, and the Waters 

 fufîiciently drained, they begin to prepare the Earth, which 

 confiils in ftirring it lightly with a Piece of Wood bent, the 

 Handle of which is very long, having firft fet Fire to the dry 

 Stalks of the Maiz and other Herbs that remained after the laft 

 Harveft. Befides that the Grain thefe People make Ufe of is 



Summer 



