which the wounded belong with an arrow piercing the part in which the wound is located; and if it be a gunshot they make the mark of the ball on the body of a different color.

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THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES.

If they have sick, and are obliged to carry them, they paint litters (boyards) of the same

number

as the sick, because they carry only one on each litter.

When they are thirty or forty leagues from their vilage they send notice of their approach, and

of what has happened them.

Then every one prepares to receive the prisoners, when there are any,

and to torment each as they deem proper. Those who are condemned to be burnt are conveyed to the cabin which has been given them. All the warriors assemble in a war cabin and afterwards send for them to make them sing, dance,

and to torment them until they are carried to the stake. During this time two or three young men are preparing the stake, placing the fuel near and keep their guns loaded. When every thing is ready, he is brought and tied to the stake and finally burnt. When he is burnt up to the stomach they detach him, break all his fingers, raise the scalp which was left hanging behind by a small tongue of skin to the head. They put him to death in these agonies, after which each takes his morsel and proceeds to make merry. Explanation of the First Designs. A. This is a person returning from war who has taken a prisoner, killed a man and a woman whose scalps hang from the end of a stick that he carries. B.