♦INDEX. 



of their councils : their orators, ii. 26, 27. Of the 

 government of villages; its defects; their caufes, ii. 

 29. Of their fenfibility of the point of honour, ii. 

 36. Care of the young Indians in adorning them- 

 felves, ii. 40, 41. Indian fable about lake Superior, 

 ii. 44, 45. Their traditions about Michillimakinac, 

 ii. 45. Their Marriages, ii. 48, &c. Jealoufyof the 

 Indians, ii. 50. Of the impofing this name amongft 

 them: remarks upon it, ii. 55, 56. The Indians of 

 the bay dance the Calumet, ii. 67. Superftition of the 

 Indians bordering on the bay, ii. 73, 74. Different 

 nations to the northward and the weftward of Canada, 

 ii. 74> 75- 



Indians of Canada; their perfonal appearance; their, 

 ftrength ; their vices, ii. 78, 79. YVhy they do not 

 encreafe; advantages they have over us, ii. 80, 8i* 

 Their eloquence, ii. 83. Their memory, penetration, 

 and judgment, ii. 83, 84. Their greatnefs of foul, 

 ii. 84. Their conftancy under pain ; their valour, ii. 

 84, &c. Their regard for one another, ii. 86, 87. 

 Their fiercenefs and other faults ; of the qualities of 

 the heart, ii. 87, 88. Inftances of the little natural 

 affection children have for their parents ; particular fo- 

 cieties amongft them, ii. 89, 90. Of their colour; 

 why they have no hair on their bodies, ii. 90, 91. 

 Their fecrefy with refpecl to the fimples and mines of 

 their country, ii. 101. Dreadful confequences of 

 dr unkennefs amongft them, ii. 105, 106. Their hap- 

 pinefs, ii. 107. Contempt ©f our manner of life, ii. 



108. Care the Indian mothers take of their children ; 

 ridiculous (hapes which fome of them give them, ii. 



109, fcfV. What flrengthens and renders them fo well 

 made ; their firft exercifes and the emulations amongft 

 them, ii. 114. To what the education given them 

 maybe reduced to, ii. 114, 115. Their paflions, ii. 

 115. Their drefs, ii. 116, 117. In what manner they 

 prick their whole bodies', ii. 118. How and for what , 

 purpofe they paint their faces, ii. 119. Ornaments of 

 the men, of the women, ii. 119, 120. Their occu- 

 pations ; of the culture of the land ; of feed-time and 

 harveft, ii. 121, 122. Of the different grains and 

 pulfe they cultivate, of their manner of dreffing them ; 



of their other victuals, ii. 123, 124, Labours of the 



men 



