d hanging to it, which has a wild sort of terror in it; and
to make it yet more warlike, they tie it on with the tail of a panther,
buffalo, or such like, letting the end hang down between their legs. The
pricked lines on his shoulders, breast and legs, represent the figures
painted thereon. In his left hand he holds a bow, and in his right an
arrow. The mark upon his shoulderblade is a distinction used by the
Indians in traveling, to show the nation they are of; and perhaps is the
same with that which Baron Lahontan calls the arms and heraldry of the
Indians. Thus the several lettered marks are used by several other
nations about Virginia, when they make a journey to their friends and
allies.

The landscape is a natural representation of an Indian field.

[Illustration: _Lith. of Ritchie & Dunnavant Richmond._
Fig. 2 Fig. 1
Tab. 3 Book 3 Pag. 129]

TAB. III is two Indian men in their winter dress. Seldom any but the
elder people wore the winter cloaks (which they call match-coats) till
they got a supply of European goods; and now most have them of one sort
or other in the cold winter weather. Fig. 1 wears the proper Indian
match-coat, which is made of skins, dressed with the fur on, sewed
together, and worn with the fur inwards, having the edges also gashed
for beauty sake. On his feet are moccasins. By him stand some Indian
cabins on the banks of the river. Fig. 2 wears the Duffield match-coat
bought of the English; on his head is a coronet of peak, on his legs are
stockings made of Duffields: that is, they take a length to reach from
the ankle to the knee, so broad as to wrap round the leg; this they sew
together, letting the edges stand out at an inch beyond the seam. When
this is on, they garter below knee, and fasten the lower end in the
moccasin.

Sec. 4. I don't find that the Indians have any other distinction in their
dress, or the fashion of their hair, than only what a greater degree of
riches enables them to make, except it be their religious persons, who
are known by the particular cut of the hair and the unusual figure of
their garments; as our clergy are distinguished by their canonical
habit.

The habit of the Indian priest is a cloak made in the form of a woman's
petticoat; but instead of tieing it about their middle, they fasten the
gatherings about their neck and tie it upon the right shoulder, always
keeping one arm out to use upon occasion. This cloak hangs even at t