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of every firagling canoe, in their return by 
water to Monreal, 
At night, loon after we were laid down to 
Jleep, and our fire almoft burnt out, we were 
ep pertained by a comical fellow, difguifed in 
as odd a drels as Indian folly could invent ; 
he had on a clumfy vizard of wood colour’d 
black, with a nole 4 or ,5 inches long, a grining 
mouth fet awry, furnifhed with long teeth, 
round the eyes circles of bright brals, fur- 
rounded by a larger circle ol white paint, 
from his forehead hung long trefles of buffaloes 
haif, and from the catch part of his head ropes 
made of tire plated husks of Indian corn ; I 
pannot recoiled the whole of his drefs, but 
that it was equally uncouth : he carried in one 
hand a large ftaff, in the other a calabafh with 
i'mall Hones in it, for a rattle, and this he 
rubbed up and down his Haff- he would 
fometimes hold up his head and make a hide- 
ous noife like the braying of an afs ; he came 
in at the further end, and made this noife at 
firft, whether it W S3 becaufe he would not. 
l'urprife us too fuddenly I can’t fay : I ask d 
Conrad JVeifer , who as well as myfelf lay 
next the alley, what noife that was? and Shic- 
kalamy the Indian chief, our companion, who 
I fuppofed, thought me fomewhat feared, 
called out, lye Hill John , I never heard him 
fpcak fo much plain Englijh before. Thejack- 
pudding prefently came up to us, and an Indian 
'• G a boy 
