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careful to obferve what dreams he has. Their firm 

 perfuafibn, according to the prefumptuous genius 

 of thofe Barbarians, that he is marching forth to 

 certain victory, never fails to infpire him with fuch 

 dreams as he defires. The fad being ended, he af* 

 fembles his friends, and holding a collar of porce- 

 lain in his hand, addr'efies them in words like thefe : 

 My brethren, the Great Spirit is the author of what 

 I fpeak, and has infpired me with the thought of 

 what I am going to put in execution. The blood 

 of fuch an one is not yet wiped away, hisxorpfe is 

 not yet covered, and I am going to perform this 

 duty to him. He fets forth in like manner the o- 

 ther motives which move him to take up arms. 

 44 I am therefore refolved to march to fuch a place 

 " to take fcalps, or to make prifoners i" Or, " I will 

 eat fuch a nation. Should I perifh in this glo- 

 ** rious enterprize, or mould any of my compa- 

 66 nions in it lofe his life, this collar will ferve to re- 

 " ceive us, that we may not be for ever hid in the 

 " dud, or in the mire." That is, perhaps, it will 

 be the recompence of him who buries the dead. 



As he pronounces thefe lad words, he lays the 

 collar on the ground, and he who takes it up, by fo 

 doing declares himfelf his lieutenant ; he then thanks 

 him for his zeal to revenge his brother, or to main- 

 tain the honour of the nation.-" Then they fet water 

 on to warm, warn the chief from his dawbing, 

 drefs, anoint with oil or fat, or paint his hair. They 

 paint his face with different colours, and clothe him 

 in his fined robe. Thus adorned, he fings with a 

 hollow voice the fong of death ; his foldiers, that 

 is to fay, all thofe who have offered themfelves to 

 accompany him (for no one is ever compelled) thun- 

 der out one after another their war fong; for every 

 one has one peculiar to himfelf, which no other per* 



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