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 They are of a clear copper colour, have long, leek, black hair on their heads; their perons are hort, tout, and well made; but they disfigure their faces by preing flat their noes, which is done in their infancy. They are a very quiet, inoffenive people, peak, and French, but none of them peak Englih.

They live chiefly by fihing in the rivers and the ea, or by fowling in the woods, at both of which they are very expert with their bows and arrows. They will kill the mallet bird with an arrow, or transfix a fih at a great depth in the ea; and are very erviceable to the planters near their ettlement, whom they chiefly upply with fih and game. They are alo very ingenious, making curious wrought s, or bakets of ilk gras, or the bark of trees. It