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times the Engli[h do ufe their way in dark nights, only they ftrike 
with an Indrumenc of Iron fomewhat like Mole-tines. 
As to their Worfliip, 1 know little of it ; only they have Priefts 
which are generally thought to be Conjurers 3 for, when they have 
great want of Rain, one of their Priefts will go into a private Ca- 
bin, and by his Invocations will caufe abundance to fall inimedi« 
ately, which they call making of Rain. 
Theyofferthe Firft fruits of all things ; the firft Dr^r they kill 
after they are in feafon, they lay privately on the head of a Tree 
near the place where they killed it , and they fay , no good luck 
willbefal them that year if they do not offer the firft of every 
thing. 
They burn the Bodies of the dead; ard fow upthe aftesin 
Matts, which they place near the Cabbins of their Relati- 
ons. 
Some of them fay^ chat the God of the Bnglilh is a good God, 
and gives them good things ; butf;&^/>God is an angry God , and 
oftentimes beats them. 
Almoft every Town differs in language, and yet not any of 
their languages copious ; as may be feen by their frequent expref- 
fing their meaning to each other by figns. 
Their mony is of two forts , one whereof is made of a white 
kind of (hell, which being divided into fmall parts,they put them 
on a ftring after the manner of Beads; this they call Pm/re; The 
other is of a blewfiiell ordered in the fame manner,which they call 
Rou»da-^ this laft is the meaner fort, about half a yard whereof is 
of equal value with our nine pence. The chief of the Indians do 
wear fome of this on the jD^^'r- skins about their bodies, laid on 
likelace* 
They have nothing to trade with but Deer skins , and fome Be* 
ver^ which they exchange with the Englifh for Guns, Gunpowder, 
Shot and Brandy ; having nothing before but Bows and Arrows, 
wherewith they killed their and other wild Beads. 
They have no other account of Time but by the changes of the 
Moon. 
Their Winter is ufually in November^ December and January. 
They are very revengfuI;for,if any one chance to be flainjbme of 
the Relations of the flain perfon will kill thetnurtherer or fome of 
his family, though it be two or three generations after , having no 
jufticedoneamongft them in this refpeft but w^hat particular per- 
fons do themfelves ; if that may be termed juftice. 
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