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their middle they wear a blanket instead of a petticoat. The females are very chaste and constant 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 shooting, and boil or roast all the meat they eat. Their standing dish consists of Indian corn 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 decline open engagements; bush fighting or skulking is their discipline; they are brave when engaged, having great fortitude in enduring tortures and are the most implacably vindictive people upon the earth; for they revenge the death of any relation, or any affront, whenever occasion presents, let the distance of time be never so remote. After long enduring the greates of hardships with these Indians. I at last escaped out of their hand and went to Quebec; where, I was put on board a French Packet, bound for England, 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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