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Accident happened once in his own Family ; but that 
after a Night or twos Sleep, they recovered. 
19. Their Sports are Dancing, their Games are play- 
ing with Straws, which as I am not perfedlly acquainted 
with, I find it hard to deferibe j I can therefore only 
tell you how it appears to a Looker-on : They take 
a certain Number of Straws, and fpread them in 
their Hands, holding them as if they were Cards ; 
then they clofe them, and fpread them again, and 
turn them very fuddenly, and feem very dextrous 
thereat. Their Exercife is Hunting, that is, Shoot- 
ing with a Gun, or with Bow and Arrow, wherein 
they excel. Their Women work, plant the Corn, 
and weave Baskets or Mats. 
20. Several have been very old j I cannot fay, that 
herein there is any remarkable Difference between 
them and the EngUph Natives. If the Englijh live 
paft 3 3, they generally live to a good Age ; but many 
die between 3 o and 3 3 . 
21. I have been told, that one of their famous 
Wiochifis prophefied, that bearded Men (for the 
American Indians have no Beards) fhould come and 
take away their Country, and that there fhould none 
of the original Indians be left within a certain Num- 
ber of Years, 1 think it was an Hundred and Fifty. 
This is very certain, that the Indian Inhabitants of 
Virginia are now very inconfiderable as to their 
Number 5 and feem infenfibly to decay, though they 
live under the Englifk Protedion, and have no Vio- 
lence offered them. They are undoubtedly no gre^ 
Breeders. 
22. Though they are fluggifh by Nature, and flow 
qC Speech, yet their Method of ExpreiEon feepas 
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