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ORIGIN OF THE



take the resolution to fight stoutly, and there is sometimes
much blood shed on both sides.
  " The attack of a camp is the image of fury itself, the
barbarous fierceness of the conquerors, and the despair of
the vanquished, who know what they must expect if they
fall into the hands of theirenemies, produce on either side
such ef frts as pass all description. The appearance of the
combatants all besmeared with black and red, still increases



the horror of the fight; an
make a true picture of hell.
doubtful, they directly dis
be troublesome to carry awe
rest they intended to make
  "c The savages are natural
their brutal fierceness, the3
action much coolness. Ne
the field, only-when they
that a victory marked with
not properly a victory, and
briniwng back all his subjec
told, that when two enemih
the fight, there sometimes
much like that of Homeric



happens in
that in litth
or forcing a
defiance, 01
  "s War is
ly succeeds
precautions
and skilful
have a woon
any person
or the hard
some traces
of their fee
other, they
ent nations
thought a ii
ter, but the
the savages



the height of ei
> rencountres, or
n entrenchment
to call to mind



d



P
ly



fronm
When
tCh a1l
, and %
risonei
intrep



this pattern one might
. the victory is no longer
I those whom it would
seek only to tire out the
rs.
id, and notwithstandcing



r yet preseive in 1
verthelecss they ne
ca-not avoid it, t he
the blood of the cc
the glory of a chic
ts safte and sound.
?s who are acquain
passes between the
9 heroes.  I do no
igagement; but it i
perhaps before pasE
;,they say somethin
         -I



some such



rencoUn



the midst of
ver fight in
sir reason IS,
Inquerors, is
£f consists in
I have been
ted, meet in
m dialogues
t think this
nay happen
;ing a brook,
[g by way of
tre.



commonly made by a surprise, and it general-
, for as the savages very frequently neglect the
                        a
necessary to shun a surprise, so are they active



ft/



in surprising
derful taleni
has passed
est ground,
3, and by the
t, by the m
distinguish.
;, and those
sng time the



   On the other hand these people
t, I may say, an instinct, to know if
any place. On the shortest grass,
even upon stones, they discover
way they are turned, by the shape
anner they are separated from each
as they say, the footsteps of differ-
of men from those of women. I
Mre was an exaggeration in this mat-



reports of those who have lived long among
are so unanimous herein, that I see no room to