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The Method the Indians in Virginia and Carolina ufe 
to Vrefs Buck and Doe-Skins ; <ts it wm communi- 
cated to the Ityyal Society by the Honourable Sir 
Robert Southwell, IQit. their frefident. 
HE Pelt being taken off is firft ftreined by Lines, 
or otherwife, moft like the Clothiers Racks, 
but for no other purpofe but to dry them. 
The Brains of the Deer, whether Bxcl^Qt Doe 9 is ta- 
ken out and mefled, anddawbed on Mofs or dryed Grafs, 
and then dryed in the Sun, or by a Fire to preferve 
them. 
When the Hunting time is over,, the Women drefs 
the Skins $ firft, by putting them in a Pond, or Hole of 
Water, to (oak them well. Then they with an old Knife 
fixed in a Cleft-Stick, force off the Hair, whilft they 
remain wet. The Hair being taken or forced o{f y they 
put as many Skins as they have made fo ready, into a 
Kettle or Earthen Pot, and a proportion of the Deers 
Brains, before fpoken of, into the Kettle with the Skins $ 
and then put them over a Fire till they are more than 
Blood-warm} which will make them ladder and fcour 
perfectly cleans which done, they with fmall flicks 
wreftand twift each Skin as long as they find any Wet 
to drop from them, letting them remain fo wrefted fomc 
Hours 5 and then they untwift each Skin, and put them 
into a fort of a Rack* like a Clothiers Rack (which 
ihey fix at every place they come to, with no more 
Trouble than two fina'll Poles fet upright, and two 
more put a thwart, all fixed with their own Barcks, )and 
extend them every way by Lines, and as the Skin dries, 
fo they with a dull Hatchet , or a Stick flatted, and 
brought 
