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of every ftragling canoe, in their return by 
water to Monreal. 
At night, foon after we were laid down to 
fleep, and our fire almoft burnt out, we were 
entertained by a comical fellow, difguifed in 
as odd a drefs as Indian folly could invent; 
he had on a clumfy vizard of wood colour’d 
black, with a nofe 4 or 5 inches long, a grining 
mouth fet awry, furnifhed with long teeth, 
round the eyes circles of bright brafs, fur- 
rounded by a larger circle of white paint, 
from his forehead hung long treffes of buffaloes 
hair, and from the catch part of his head ropes 
made of the plated husks of Indian corn ; I 
cannot recoiled! the whole of his drefs, but 
that it was equally uncouth : he carried in one 
hand a long ftaff, in the other a calabafh with 
fmall ftones in it, for a rattle, and this he 
rubbed up and down his ftaff ; 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 was becaufe he would not 
furprife us too fuddenly I can’t fay : I ask’d 
Conrad Weifer , who as well as rnyfelf 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 ftill John . I never heard him 
fpeak fo much plain Englifh before. The jack- 
pudding prefen tly came up to us, and an Indian 
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