244? "travels through upper Canada t 
afterwards they will run and pick them every 
one up without hesitation. The southern In¬ 
dians are much more expert at the use of the 
bow than those near the lakes, as they make 
much greater use of it. 
With the gun, it seems to be generally 
allowed, that the Indians are by no means so 
good marksmen as the white people. I have 
often taken them out shooting with me, and 
I always found them very slow in taking aim; 
and though they generally hit an object that 
was still, yet they scarcely ever touched a bird 
on the wing, or a squirrel that was leaping 
about from-tree to tree. 
The expertness of the Indians in throwing 
the tomahawk is well known. At the distance 
of ten yards they will fix the sharp edge of it 
in an object nearly to a certainty. I have been 
told, however, that they are not fond of letting 
it out of their hands in action, and that they 
never attempt to throw it but when they are 
on the point of overtaking a hying foe, or are 
certain of recovering it. Some of them will 
fasten a string of the length of a few feet to the 
handle of the tomahawk, and will launch it 
forth, and draw it back again into their hand 
with great dexterity; they will also parry the 
thrust or cuts of sword with the tomahawk 
very dexterously. 
The common tomahawk is nothing more 
