TOMAHAWKS. 
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than a light hatchet, but tlxe most approved 
sort has on the back part of the hatchet, and . 
connected with it in one piece, the bowl of a 
pipe, so that when the handle is perforated, the 
tomahawk answers every purpope of a pipe: 
the Indians, indeed, are fonder of smoking out 
of a tomahawk than out of any other sort of 
pipe. That formerly given to the Indians by 
the French traders, instead of a pipe, had a 
large spike on the back part of the hatchet; 
very few of these instruments are now to found 
amongst them; I never saw but one. The 
tomahawk is commonly worn by the left side, 
jetuck in a belt. 
For the favourite chief, very elegant pipe 
tomahawks, inlaid with silver, are manufac¬ 
tured by the armourers in the Indian depart¬ 
ment. Captain E-- has given me one of 
this kind, which he had made for himself ; it 
is so much admired by the Indians, that when 
they have seen it with me, they have frequently 
asked me to lend it to them for an hour or so 
to smoke out of, just as children would ask 
for a pretty plaything ; they have never failed 
to return it very punctually. 
The armourers here alluded to are persons 
kept at the expence of government to repair 
the arms of the Indians when they happen to 
break, which is very commonly the case. 
An Indian child, soon after it is born, is 
