$38 TRAVELS THROUGH- LOWER CANADA! 
*wiih black, except la round spot in the center, 
which included the upper lip and end of the 
nose, which was painted red; others again 
I have seen with their heads entirely black, 
except a large red round spot on each ear; 
others with one eye black and the other red, 
&c.; but the most common style of painting 
I observed, was to black their faces entirely 
over with charcoal, and then wetting theif 
nails, to draw parallel undulating lines on 
their cheeks. They generally carry a little 
looking glass about them, to enable them to 
dispose of their colours judiciously. When they 
go to war they rub in the paint with grease, 
and are much more particular about their ap¬ 
pearance, which they study to render as hor¬ 
rible as possible; they then cover their whole 
body with red, white, and black paint, and 
seem more like devils than human beings. 
Different tribes have different methods of 
painting themselves. 
Though the Indians spend so much of their 
time in adorning their persons, yet they take 
no pains to ornament their habitations, which 
for the most part are wretched indeed Some of 
them are formed of logs, in a style somewhat 
similar to the common houses in the United 
States ; but the greater part of them are of a 
moveable nature and formed of bark. The 
