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fi rotis of having fomething the warriors have been 

 in ufe to wear or carry about them, and gives them 

 in return pledges of their rriendfhip, and affurances 

 of an everlalting remembrance of them. They 

 fcarce ever enter any of their cabins without carry- 

 ing away their robe, in order to give them a better, 

 or at leait one full as good in its ftead. Laftly, they 

 all repair to the chief. They find him armed as on 

 the fir ft day of his addreffing himfelf to them, and as 

 be has appeared in publick everfmce, 1 hey again have 

 their faces painted, every one after his own fancy 

 or caprice, and all of them generally fo as to ftrike 

 terror. The chief makes them a fhort harangue : 

 afterwards he ,comes out of his cabin ringing the 

 death fong. They all follow him in file, or one 

 after another, obferving a profound filence ; and the 

 fame thing is repeated every morning when they be- 

 gin their march. Here the women lead the van 

 with their provisions ; and when the warriors have 

 joined them, they deliver to them all their baggage, 

 and remain almoft naked *, at leaft as much fo as the 

 feafon will allow. 



Formerly the arms of the Indians were the bow and 

 arrow, and a kind of javelin, both pointed with a 

 kind of bone worked in different manners ; and laft- 

 ly, the hatchet or break-head. This was formerly 

 a fhort club of a very hard wood, the head of which 

 was partly round, and partly fharp edged. Mod 

 had no defenfive weapon •, but when they attacked 

 any entrenchment, they covered their whole body 

 with fmall light boards. Some have a fort of cui- 

 rafs, or breaft plate, of fmall pliable rings very neat- 

 ly worked. They had even formerly a kind of 

 mail for the arms and thighs made of the fame ma- 

 terials. But as this kind of armour was found not to 

 be proof againft fire arms, they have renounced 



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