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feemed to be expiring under the power of their in- 

 cantations : afterwards, by applying a certain pow- 

 der to their lips, they reflored them to life. 



When this farce had laded fome time, he who 

 prefided at the feaft, having two men and two wo- 

 men near him, run over all the cabbins, to intimate 

 that the facrifices were going to begin. On meet-' 

 ing any one in his way, he reded both hands on 

 his head, and the other embraced his knees. The 

 victims were to be dogs, and the cries of thefe ani- 

 mals, which were howling, and of the Indians who 

 howled as if to anfwer them, with all their might 

 were heard on all fides. When the viands were 

 ready, they were offered to the pagods, they were 

 afterwards eaten, and the bones were burnt. Mean 

 time the juggler continued to reftore the dead to 

 life, and the whole concluded with diftributing to 

 thefe quacks a portion of whatever was mod to their 

 fancy in the whole town. 



From the time of their coming to the refolution 

 of making war, to the departure of the warriors, 

 the nights are fpent in finging, and the days in 

 making the necefTary preparations. They depute 

 warriors to fing the war fong amongd their neigh- 

 bours and allies, whom they often take care to dif- 

 pofe to their defires before hand, and by fecret ne- 

 gociations. If their rout is by water, they build or 

 repair their canoes ; if it happen to be in the winter 

 feafon, they provide them 1 elves in fledges and fnow 

 fhoes. Thefe fnow fhoes, which are abfolutely ne- 

 cefTary for walking in the fnow, are about three 

 feet long, and from fifteen to fixteen inches in their 

 extreme width. They are of an oval fhape, except 

 that the hind part terminates in a point ; there are 

 fmall bits of wood placed crofs wife five or fix inches 



from 



