ORIGIN



OF THE



the elbows with a cord, the end of which is held by the
warriors, and they sing without ceasing their death songto
the sound of the Chichicoue.
  " This song has something mournful and haughty at the



same time; and the captive has nothing of the air
who suffers, and that is vanquished. This is pretty
sense of -these songs :-" I am brave and intrepid;
fear death nor any kind of tortures ; those whofear
cowards; they are less than women; life is nothina
courage; may my enemies be confounded with despair £
Oh ! that I could devour them and drink their blood t
drop." From time to time they stop them; the peop
round them and dance; they seem to do it wit]
will; they relate the finest actions of their lives; tl
all those they have killed or burnt; and they m
ticular mention of those for whom the people pre
concerned; one would say that they only seek to
more and more against them the masters of their I
fiaet. these boastings make those who hear the



#urious, and
most cruel i
pleasure in



  -  -~C3
l they pay dear
Treatment, one 'w
being tormented.



for their



d



say,



vanity
that



. bu
they



of a man
-near the
I do not
them are
without
tnd rage;
o the last
le gather
ia good
iey name
lake par-
Xsent are
animate
fate. In
zm quite
t bv the



take



a



  "Sometimes they oblige
two ranks of savages, armec
fall upon them as if they w(
the first blow; yet it never
so much care do they take,
at random, that their hand,
does not touch any part thal
march every one has a right
indeed allowed to defend ti
they were to attempt it, soo
they are arrived at the villa
to cabin, and every where
welcome., In one place the
another place they bite off o
with a bad knife which cuts
their flesh to the very bone



I



the prisoners to
with stones and



run through
sticks, who



)uld knock them in the h
happens that they kill
even when they seem to
which is guided by fury
t would endanger life. :
L to torment them. The
liemselves: but thev wc



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in be overpow
dge, they lead
they make
7y pull off one
ne of their fin
, like a saw.
:; a child wit]



,.



ead at
them;
strike
alone,
In this
ey are
IId, if



ered. As soon as
them from cabin
them pay their
of their nails, in
gers, or cut it off
An old man tears
h an awl wounds



them where he can; a woman whips them without mercy,
till she is so tired that she cannot lift her hand ; but none of



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