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22 way to their winter quarters, about two hundred miles farther from any plantation or inhabitants, where, after a long and tedious journey, being almost starved, I arrived with this infernal crew. The place where wc wcre to rest, in their tongue is called Alamingo. Therc werc fonnd a num- ber of wigwams full of their women and children. Dancing, shooting, and shouting, wcrc their gen- eral amusements ; and in all their fcstivals and lances they relate what succcsses they have had, and what damages they have sustained in their expeditions, in which I became part of their theme. The severity of the cold increasing, they stript me of my clothes, for their own use, and gave mc such as they usually wore themselves, being a piece of blanket, a pair of mogganes, or shoes, with a yard of coarse cloth to put round me instead of breeches. To describe their dress and manner of living may not be altogether un- acceptable to some of my readers ; but, as the size of this book will not permit me to be so par- ticular as I might otherwise be, I shall just ob- serve, that they, in general, wear a white blan ket, which in war-time they paint with variou figures, but particularly the leaves of trees, in or- der to deeeive their enemies, when in the woods Their mogganes are made of deer-skins, and the best sort have them bound round the edges with little beads and ribbands. On their legs they