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and anointed with hair grease, and the red root, & they adorn it with feathers of various beautiful colors, unclear copper & iron rings, & sometimes wampum or peak in the ears. And they paint their faces all over, as red as vermillion, making a circle of black about one eye, and a circle of white about the other. When they go to war, they carry their idol with them & ask counsel? of it as the ancients used to do of the oracle of Apollo. They scalp their prisoners, & stick? their bodies full of unclear pine, & burn them like larches?, making them dance around the fire, buffeting & degrading them till they expire.The weapons they kill or wound their enemies with, are kept with the blood upon them as trophies of their victory. But after the English colonists came into their neighbourhood, they [[unclear[[ to them as slaves.

To encourage the young men to be unclearin planting their maize & pulse, they place a kind of idol in the field, dressed up exactly like an Indian, with a great quantity of wampum or money, that is made of conch shells hanging about his neck. This unclear none of the young men dared approach,