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All thofe who enlift themfelves, give alfo to the 

 chief, as a token of their engagement, a bit of 

 wood with their mark upon it, and he who after 

 that mould draw back, would never be fafe while 

 he lived ; at lead he would be difhonoured for ever. 

 The party once formed, the war chief prepares a 

 a new feail, to which the whole village is invited, 

 and before any thing is tafted, he, or an orator for 

 him, and in his name, accolts them in fueh words 

 as thefe : " My brethren, I know I am not worthy 

 44 to be called a man, tho' you all know that I 

 44 have more than once looked an enemy in the 

 44 face. We have been flaughtered \ the bones of 

 46 fuch and fuch perfons are yet unburied, they cry 

 44 out againft us, and we muft fatisfy their requeft. 

 " They were once men as well as we; how there- 

 * 4 fore could we fo foon forget them, and fit fo long 

 46 in this lethargy on our matreffes ? In a word, the 

 44 genius who is the guardian of my honour and 

 4t the author of my renown, infpires me with 

 " the refolution to revenge them. Youth, take 

 44 courage, anoint your hair, paint your vifages, 

 44 fill your quivers, caufe the forefts refound with 

 44 the voice of your military fongs, let us eafe and 

 4C comfort the deceafed, and mew them that we 

 46 have avenged them." 



After this difcourfe, and the applaufes with which 

 it never fails to be attended, the chief proceeds into 

 the mid ft of the afTembly, his hatchet in his hand, 

 and fings his fong ; all his foldiers make refponfes in 

 the fame manner, and fwear to fecond him or to die 

 in the attempt. All this is accompanied with ges- 

 tures highly expreffive of their refolution never to 

 give ground to an enemy ; but it is to be remarked 

 that not a ly liable efcapes any foldier, which ligni- 

 fies the leaft dependance. The whole confifts in 



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