NORTH



AMERICAN INDIANS.



ttires inflicted by my ena
and go to join thlose cl
me. "
  When they approach
arrival by different crie
indicate how many pri
number of death cries
companions they have]



themi to learn th
which the priso
them with stick
cil which is irn



muined.
to the
to the



partict
ers are
from o



emies. I will die like a warrior,
Fiefs who have suffered before



thc



sir tents,



they announce their



s. The nu mber c
.soners they have
I, indicate how t
lost. The whole
ilars. They form
] obliged to pass;
ne end to the other



mnediately held,



  Those win
war chief; ti
chief'of the n



demned than he is
the stake, while, fox
song. He is then bu
courage, whici disti
b- za chifef who has
mer engagements
give his fortitude a
most dreadffil torIrt
one hand, nor pity
his torments as une4



their fate



of war whoops
taken. The
nany of their
village meets
a line throuch
and they beat
. By a coun-



is



) are condemned to die a
aose who are spared are
Lation. A prisoner is no
led to execution. He
r the last time, he since



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so
re
to
so
is



on deter-
delivered
be given
oner con-
bound to



s his
  to



ruea andi expires witn tat ter
aguishes an Indian. warrior.
given proofs of his prowess
vith his enemies, they freq
;evere trial, by the infliction
mnts. Terror finds no place
in the other. The victim glo
[ulvocal marks of the opinion



tained of him by his tormentors. He bo
tories he has obtained over their nation:
the scalps which he possesses; he recapiti



ner in which he has t



them with
it is said, s
for several
hu mbled,
voke his l
putting a
made use (



ignorance
dineti unes
dttys, till
expires w
tormentors
speedy en
of on these



all of them are such
ceive,or a savage hat



death
ociou s
If he
in for-
uently
of the
on the
ries in
enter-



asts of the vic-
he enumerates
Lilates the man-



relted his prisoners,and reproaches
> inthil act of torture. This scene,
continues with little intermission
the prisoner is exhausted, but not
ithout a sjgh, or till his tauints pro-
to frustrate their own designs by
d to his existence. The tortures
occasionèn are of various kinds, but
only as a savage heart could con-
Aid could inflict3 and that only when
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