NORTH



AMERICAN



INDIANS.



doubt of their



country of-safety, tl
lest the wounded sh
turns on litters, or dr
they re-enter their



and t
allies
and
troub
and t
they
they
take
to be
they
and I
they



hey practise
3; an honour t
the unfortuni
'le of singing;
o caress the
can devise,
are lamed for
some care of
too much ab
take to keep



gy
go



at night
some co
their lej
stir, and
in such



ti
w
it
f



Till



the



bey malch forw
ould retard ther
raw them on slet
canoes they ma]
he same thing
hich costs them
e captives som
'or they invite ti



prisone
or to m
ever;
these*
used.
them;



rs
air
bi
wr
Bt
by



conquerors are



ard ex
n, the3
Iges in
ke thei



4



is to do
n them
it there
etches,



it
d



f



n.o
)LY



the arms to one of the b
by land there is always



they are 4



stretched upo



1rds fastened -to piquets,
gs, arms, and necks so
I some long cords confin
a manner that they can:



without waking 1
  " If among thi
wounds are not
burn them diree
and when they
most part, more f



the
e p
in
tly
are
orti



11
a
A!t
Lie
tl
ir
C



)thing
I they
ars of
one tl
n the
fixed
confil
e also
not m



rhen
feast
hing
allie:
hem
I sucI
ire s'
id do



peditiously,



in a



and



r carry them by
winter. When
r prisoners sing,
they meet any
who receive it,
more than the
s to caress them,
all the mischief
a a manner that
ome chiefs who
I not sufter them



is equal to til
are tied by the
the canoes.
iat holds them
earth quite n
in the ground4



a~~~~~~
e care
e neck
When
; and
aked;
, keep



ed that they cannot
their hands and feet,
ake the least motion



savages who lie on these (
risoners there are any, v
a condition to be carried
; and as this is done in th
! in haste to retreat, they
inate than the others who



'ords.
rho by their
away, they
e first heat,
are, for the
are reserved



for a slower punishment.
  " In order to leave on the
the chief of the victorious p
. . S  a   .



lighting club, on which
mark of his nation, that of
that is to say, an Oval, wn



he
bhi
ith



face. Others painted all thb
tree, or on a piece of bark,
rubbed, mixed with some col
glyphic characters, by means
may know even the minute
the action, but also of the wi
paign . They know the chief



field a mark of their victory,
arty sticks in the ground his
bha  taken care to trace the
family, and his own picture;
all the figures he had in his
,se marks on the trunk of a
with charcoal pounded and
ours. They add some hiero-
of which, those who pass by
st circumstances, not only of
hole transactions of the came
f of the party by all the marks



sincerity.



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