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on (ledges if it is in the winter-feafon. On enter- 

 ing their canoes, they make their prifoners fing, 

 which is alfo done as often as they meet with any 

 of their allies. This honour cofts thofe who re- 

 ceive it a feaft, and fomething (till worfe than the 

 trouble of Tinging to the wretched captives. They 

 invite their allies to carefs them ; now to carefs a 

 priibner is to do him all the mifchief they can think 

 of, or to maim him in fuch manner that he remains 

 a cripple for ever after. There are fome chiefs, 

 however, who take indifferent good care of thefe 

 unhappy people, and who do not fuffer them to be 

 too cruelly handled *, but nothing can come up to 

 their care in watching them. In the day time they 

 are tied by the neck and arm to the timbers of a 

 canoe, and when the journey is by land, there is 

 always one to hold them. In the night-time they 

 are (tretched along the ground quite naked, and 

 there are cords fixed to hooks planted in the ground, 

 which tie their legs, arms, and neck fo faft, that 

 they cannot ftir, and there are be fides, long cords, 

 which are faftened to their hands and feet in fuch 

 manner, that the lean: motion they make wakens the 

 Indian who lies on thefe cords. 



After the warriors have got within a certain dis- 

 tance of their village, they halt, and the chief fends 

 to give notice of his approach. Amongft fome na- 

 tions, as foon as the deputy has got near enough 

 to be within hearing, he makes different cries which 

 communicate a general idea of the principal adven- 

 tures and fuccefs of the campaign. The firft Sig- 

 nifies the number of men killed, by fo many death- 

 cries. Immediately the young people come out to 

 inform themfelves more particularly ; and often a 

 whole village runs out, but only one perfon accofts 



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