They generally have a rendezvous when they propose to strike a blow, where in case of pursuit, they leave a part of their clothes and ammunition. When they fight, they are very Molochs, and have merely the waistcloth on, with a pair of mocasins on the feet. When the expedition is numerous they often leave a party a hundred or a hundred and fifty leagues (lieues, qy. paces'?) from the village which they are about to attack. When they have finished, if they

have casse-tetes or clubs, they plant them against the corpse inclining a little

towards the village of the slain.

On their return, if they have prisoners or scalps, they paint the animal of the tribe to which they belong, rampant, (debout) with a staff on the shoulder along which are strung the scalps they may

have, and in the same number.

After the animal are the prisoners they have made, with a chichicois,

(or gourd filled with beans which rattle), in the right hand.

If they be women, they represent them

with a Cadenette or queue and a. waistcloth. If there be several tribes in the war party, each paints the animal of his tribe with the scalps and

prisoners it has made, as before, but always after that which is head of the party.

When they have scalps they give them to one or two men who suspend them behind them to their girdle.

These men who carry these scalps follow the others at a distance, that is to say, at a quarter of a league, because they pretend that when they retreat and have scalps, if these precede the others