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extensive stricken text at top of page not transcribed fine shoulders, & calling to mind the dignified occupants of the senate house or Forum. Their rifle carried with so much vanity of posture & the numerous pouches & trinkets add to their picturesque appearance -- Their hair is worn long, sometimes plaited, & where parted vermillion is rubbed into the seam, feathers, wampum &c also adorn their heads. A shirt of figured calico is sometimes worn & a "breech-clout" always. The leggins reach to the middle of the thigh & are attached to the belt by strips of cloth or skin, while a garter is tied below the knee & mocassins cover the feet.
Continued in Vol 2 of Journal