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Jy burn them, and this is done in their firft trans- 

 ports of rage, and as they are often obliged to 

 make a hafty retreat, they generally come off 

 cheaper than thofe they referve for a (lower punifh- 

 ment. 



It is cuflomary among fome nations, for the 

 chief of the victorious party to leave his hatchet 

 upon the field of battle, on which he takes care to 

 trace the mark of his nation, that of his family, 

 together with his own portrait, that is, an oval, 

 with all the figures he wears on his vifage repre- 

 fented within it. Others paint all thefe marks on 

 the trunk of a me, or on a piece of bark, wich 

 charcoal dull mixed with fome other colours. They 

 alfo add hieroglyphick characters by means of which 

 paffengers may inform themfelves of the minuted 

 circ urn (lances, not only of the adtion but of the 

 whole campaign. The chief of the party may be 

 known by the marks above-mentioned ; the number 

 of his exploits by fo many matrafies ; the number 

 of his foidiers by fo many lines ; that of the pri- 

 foners by fo many fmall figures carrying fcaves, or 

 chichicoues ; that of the killed by fo many human 

 figures without heads, with fuch different marks as 

 ferve to diftinguifh men grown from women and 

 children. But this is not always found very 

 near the place of action, for when a party is in 

 fear of being purfued, they place them at a d f- 

 tance from their route, in order to deceive their 

 purluers. 



Till fuch time as they reach a country where they 

 may be in fafety, they make abundance ot difpatch, 

 and that the wounded may not retard their flight, 

 they carry them by turns on litters, or draw them 



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