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the envoy, learns of him the detail of the news he 

 brings ; as he relates any particular, the other turns 

 towards the reft of the people and repeats it aloud, 

 and they anfwer by fo many acclamations or cries 

 of lamentation, as the news prove mournful, or 

 the contrary. 



The envoy is afterwards conducted into a cabin, 

 where the elders put the fame queftions to him, af- 

 ter which a publick crier invites all the youth to 

 go to meet the warriors, and the women to carry 

 them refreshments. In other parts they think of 

 nothing at firft but bewailing thofe they have loft. 

 The envoy makes only death-cries. No body 

 comes out to meet him ; but on his entering the 

 village he finds all the people afTembled, he relates 

 in few words all that has pafTed, and then retires 

 to his cabin, where they bring him fomething to 

 eat, and for fome time they are wholly occupied in 

 mourning for the dead. 



This term being expired, another cry is made, 

 to denote the victory. Then every one wipes off 

 his tears, and there is nothing but rejoicing ; Some- 

 thing like this is done, at the return from hunt- 

 ing the women who have remained in the vil- 

 lage go out to meet them, on being informed of 

 their approach, and before they are acquainted with 

 the fuccefs of their hunting, they fignify by their 

 tears the number of deaths fince their departure. 

 To return to the warriors, the moment the wo- 

 men join them is properly the beginning of the 

 fu fie rings of the prifoners ; likewife, when fome of 

 them have at firft been appointed to be adopted, 

 which is not lawful in every nation, their future 

 parents, whom they take care to inform, go to a 



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