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by the warriors, and Tinging all the while their 

 deatlvfong to the beat of the chichikoue. 



This fong is at the fame time extremely fierce 

 and doleful, the captive difcovering nothing that 

 has the leaft appearance of a perfon that has been 

 vanquimed, or is under affliction. The purport of 

 this fong is as follows : " I am brave and undaunt- 

 " ed, and fear neither death nor the cruelleft tor* 



ments •, thofe who fear them are cowards and Jefs 

 " than women life is nothing to a man that has 

 " courage ; may rage and defpair choak all my 

 * c enemies ; why cannot I devour them and drink 

 " up their blood to the laft drop." The prifoners 

 are made to halt from time to time, the Indians 

 meanwhile flocking round them, dancing themfelves 

 and caufing them to dance which they feem to do 

 very chearfully, relating all the time the braved ac- 

 tions of their lives, and mentioning the names of 

 all thofe whom they have killed or burnt. They 

 take particular notice of thofe in whom the aflift- 

 ants are moftly interefted ; and it may be faid, that 

 their chief defign is to incenfe the arbiters of their 

 fate more and more againft them. Thefe bravados 

 feldom fail to provoke the fury of all who hear 

 them, and their vanity frequently cofts them dear. 

 But from the manner in which they bear the cruel- 

 eft treatment, one fhould think that tormenting 



them is doing them a pleafure. 

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Sometimes they are forced to run between two 

 rows of Indians armed with ftones and cud- 

 gels, who ftrike them as if they intended to 

 knock them down at every blow. This, however, 

 never happens, for even when they feem to ftrike 

 at random, and to be actuated only by fury, they 



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