Their traditions

seeing again ; they rejoiced whites laughed at them, seeing that they knew not the use of the axes, hoes, etc., they had given them, they having had those

hanging to their breasts as ornaments, and the stockings they had made use of as tobacco pouches. The whites now put handles or helves in the former, and cut trees

down before

their eyes, and dug the ground, and showed them the use of the

Here a general laughter ensued among the Indians, stockings. that they had remained for so long a time ignorant of the use of so valuable implements, and had borne with the weight of such heavy metal hanging to their necks for such a length of time.

They took every white man they saw for a Manitto,

yet inferior and attendant to the supreme Manitto, to wit : to the

one which wore the red and laced clothes.

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Familiarity daily increasing between them and the whites, the latter now proposed to stay with them, asking them only for

so

much land

as the hide

of a bullock would cover or

encompass, which hide was brought forward and spread on the

That they readily granted this request ; a knife, and beginning at one place took the whites whereupon

ground before them.

on this hide, cut it up into a rope not thicker than the ringer of that by the time this hide was cut up, there was a great heap ; that this rope was drawn out to a great disa little child, so