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24 their middle they wear a blanket instead of a pettieoat. The females are very chaste and con- stant to their husbands ; and if any young maiden should happen to have a child before marriage, she is never esteemed afterwards. As for their food, they get it chiefly by hunting and shoot- ing, and boil or roast all the meat they eat. Their standing dish eonsists of Indian eorn soaked, then bruised and boiled. Their bread is likewise made of wild oats, or sun-flower seeds. Their gun, tomahawk, scalping-knife, powder and shot, they carry with them in time of war. They in war deeline open engagements ; bush fighting or skulking is their diseipline ; they are brave when engaged, having great fortitude in enduring tor- tures and are the most implaeably vindietive peo- ple upon the earth ; for they revenge the death of any relation, or any affront, whenevcr oeeasion presents, let the distance of time be never so re- mote. After long enduring the greates of hard- ships with these Indians. I at last escaped out of their hand and went to Quebee ; where, I was put on board a Freneh Packet, bound for Eng- land, and after a passage of six weeks. We, at last, to our great joy, arrived at Plymouth, on the 6th of November, 1756.

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