[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] to do; and they make little of death, when it is inevitable, and despise all tortures ^'X 'rtakTth™ that can be inflicted on them at the stake, exliibiting no faintheartedness, but S."""" '""'^ "" generally singing until they are dead. They also know right well how to cure J^ey 'y;"''^oJ7„^ wounds and hurts, or inveterate sores and injuries, by means of herbs and roots "ni ""''idenis. indigenous to the country, and which are known to them. The clothing as well °'', iadialT™"^ °' of men as of women consists of a piece of duffels, or of deerskin leather or elk hide around the body, to cover their nakedness. Some have a bearskin of which they make doublets; others again, coats of the skins of racoons, wild cats, wolves, dogs, fishers, squirrels, beavers and the like; and they even have made themselves some of turkey's feathers; now they make use for the most part of duffels cloth which they obtain in trade from the Christians; they make their stockings and shoes of deerskins or elk hides, some even have shoes of corn husks whereof they also make sacks. Their money consists of white and black Wampum tii« indinn cm-•' •' r rmoY is white and which they themselves manufacture; their measure and value is the hand or wact wampum. fathom, and if it be corn that is to be measured, 'tis done by the denotas which are bags of their own making.