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arly marked appearance, being richly mottled, 

 as if ftained by art, and fo me what refembling 

 the {kin of a fnake. The ftring is made of 

 the filk-grafs, and is remarkably ftrong. An 

 Indian will hit a chicken with tolerable cer- 

 tainty, at nearly a hundred yards diftance. 

 He is very particular refpe&ing his arrow, 

 and examines it with great care, in order to 

 afcertain that it be. perfectly ftraight, before he 

 attempts to ufe it. The attitude of a naked 

 Indian in pulling his bow, is highly graceful, 

 and exhibits the human figure to great advan- 

 tage. I have fometimes obferved in it fo 

 ftriking a difplay of a well-made mufcular 

 form, that I have fancied I could have felt a 

 regret had the nakednefs been concealed under 

 which it was prefented. 



The arrow which they are in the habit of 

 poifoning is made of a light hard wood. It 

 is about ten or twelve inches long, and of 

 the thicknefs of an oat ftraw. It is blunt 

 at one end, and cut to a fharp point at the 

 other, the pointed end being dipped in the poi- 

 fon. The manner of ufing it is by blowing it 

 from a cylindrical tube, about feven feet in 

 kngth. A bit of cotton is lightly put in at 



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