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demonstrations of regard. In the evening he 
received an invitation to a great feast; and was 
there presented with a wooden bowl and spoon, 
and directed to fill the former from a huge kettle 
of boiled corn and hashed venison. The even¬ 
ing concluded with a war-dance, and the next 
morning, the warriors of the tribe assembled, 
and leaving one or two hunters to provide for 
their families in their absence, the rest marched 
for the frontiers of Virginia. In leaving the vil¬ 
lage, the warriors observed the most profound 
silence, with the exception of their leader, who 
sung the traveling-song, as it is called; and when 
some distance off, they discharged their rifles 
slowly, and in regular succession, beginning in 
front and ending with the rear. 
As soon as the warriors had left them, Smith 
was invited to a dance, in which the Indian boys 
and young unmarried squaws assembled, and 
amused themselves for several hours. They 
formed in two lines, facing each other, at the 
distance of about twenty feet. One of the young 
men held a gourd in his hand, filled with pebbles 
or beads, which he rattled in such a manner as 
to produce music. All the dancers singing in 
concert with their leader, moved forward in a 
line until the parties met; then they retired, and 
repeated the same exercise for hours without the 
least variation. 
With the Indians, it is uniformly the custom 
to invite every visitor to eat, as soon as he enters 
the wigwam; .and, if he refuses, they are much 
offended, regarding it as an evidence of hostility 
to them, and contempt for their housekeeping. 
Smith, ignorant of this Circumstance, was some¬ 
times pressed to eat twenty times in a day, and, 
observing their dark and suspicious glances when 
he declined their hospitality, he endeavored at 
lerigth to satisfy them, at the risk of stuffing 
himself to death. Making it a point to eat with 
all who invited him, he soon, found himself in 
great favor, and in the course of a week after 
his' adoption, an old chief honored him with an 
invitation to dine with him. Smith readily con¬ 
sented. 
At the distance of a few miles from the vil¬ 
lage, they discovered a number of buffalo tracks. 
The old Indian regarded them attentively, and 
followed them with' great caution, stopping fre¬ 
quently to listen, and rolling his eyes keenly in 
every direction. Smith, surprised at this singu¬ 
lar conduct, asked him why he did not push on 
more rapidly, and endeavor to get a shot. 
“Hush!” said the Indian, shaking his head, “may 
be buffalo—may be Catawba.” 
Having at length satisfied himself that they 
were really buffalo, he pushed on more rapidly, 
and on the. way assigned his reasons for his 
hesitation. He said, that the Catawbas had long 
been at war with his tribe, and were the most 
cunning and wicked nation in the world. That 
a few years ago, they had secretly approached 
his camp in the night, and sent out a few of 
their spies, mounted upon buffalo hoofs, who 
walked round their camp and then returned to 
the main body. That, in the morning, he and his 
warriors, perceiving their tracks, supposed a herd 
of buffalo to be ahead of them, and moved on 
rapidly in pursuit. That they soon fell into the 
ambuscade, were fired on by the Catawbas, and 
many of them killed. The Catawbas, however, 
quickly gave way, and were pursued by his 
young men with great eagerness. But they had 
taken the precaution to stick a number of slender 
•reeds in the grass, sharpened like a pen, and 
dipped in rattlesnake’s poison, so that, as his 
young men pursued them eagerly, most of them 
were artifically snakebitten and lamed. That the 
Catawbas turned upon them, overpowered them, 
and took the scalps of all who had been lamed 
by the reeds. The old man concluded by. shak¬ 
ing his head, and declaring, that “Catawba was 
very bad Indian—a perfect devil for mischief.” 
A few days afterward, Smith was so unfor¬ 
tunate as to fall into discredit with these simple 
people. He had been directed to go out and 
kill some venison for the squaws and children, 
who had suffered for several days, during the 
absence of the greater part of the warriors. As 
this was the first time that he had been intrusted 
with so weighty a commission alone, he was 
anxious to signalize his hunt by an unusual dis¬ 
play of skill and enterprise. He, therefore, 
