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When they have met with fuccefs in any mili- 

 tary expedition, the warriors contrive their march 

 in iuch a manner, that they always arrive at the vil- 

 lage in the evening. As foon as they are come 

 near it, they halt, and when night is come, depute 

 two or three young people to the chief, to inform 

 him of the principal events of the campaign. On 

 the morrow at day- break they attire their prifoner's 

 in new robes, drefs their hair with down, paint their 

 faces with different colours, and put into their 

 hands a white ftaff furrounded with the tails of 

 deer. At the fame time, the war-chief fhouts, and 

 the whole village affembles at the water-fide, pro- 

 vided it happens to be near a river. 



As foon as the warriors appear, four young per- 

 fons well-drelfed embark on board a Pirogue *, the 

 two firft carry each of them a calumet, and proceed 

 finging at the fame time to fetch the prifoners whom 

 they conduct as in triumph to the cabbin where 

 they are to be judged. The mailer of, the cabbin, 

 to whom it belongs to determine their fate, begini 

 with giving them to eat, and holds a council dur- 

 ing the repaft. In cafe they grant any one his life, 

 two young perfons untie him, and take him each by 

 a hand, 1 and fo make him run with all his might 

 towards the river, into which they throw him 

 headlong. They alfo throw themfelves into it 

 after him, and when they have well warned 

 him, conduct him to the perfon whofe Have he is 

 to be. 



As for thofe who are condemned to die, as food 

 as fentence is pronounced, the cry is made to affem- 



* This is a long fort of boat made of the trunk of a fingle 

 tree, Canoes of bark are feldom made ufe of in thefe parts. 



