r Room.

Their Drink is Water, unless they can get _Rum_; with which they make
themselves the greatest Beasts, never ceasing as long as they have
Liquor to drink, and can keep awake.

I have known, when Cows have been given them, that they let them go dry
for Laziness in neglecting to milk them, and die in the Winter for want
of Fodder.

They commonly wear a Dear-Skin, putting their Arms thro' the Holes of
the Shoulder, with a Flap ty'd before and behind to cover their
Nakedness; though they buy often _Matchcoats_ or Blankets now, to defend
them from the Wet and Cold, and think themselves very fine in such Coats
as our common Soldiers wear, or of any taudry Colours: Besides this,
some pin Pieces of red or blue Cloth about their Legs, and make
_Moccasons_ or leather Purses for their Feet, with which they can travel
in the Woods, without Danger of Thorns or Stumps. For all the Country is
but one continued Forest, with Patches of some hundred Acres here and
there cleared; either being formerly seated by _Indians_, or the Trees
being burnt in Fire-Hunting, or cut down for Plantations.

Their Children almost as soon as born, are ty'd flat on their Backs to a
Board; and so may be flung on the Ground, or put to lean against any
Thing, or be flung over their Neck in Travelling, or hung upon a Bough,
as Occasion requires.

This occasions them to be exactly strait; so that it is a Miracle to see
a crooked or deformed _Indian_.

Their Hair is very black, coarse and long; and they are all over daubed
frequently with Bear's Oil.

Each Nation has some distinguishing Mark, especially in the Cut or Tie
of their Hair, in which they are very whimsical and comical.

They often wear Shells hanging upon their Breasts, with Feathers or a
Deer's Tail in their bored Ears or Hair, with a Wolf or Fox-Skin for a
Snapsack; with other odd Accoutrements.

In their Opinion, they are finest when dressed most ridiculously or
terribly. Thus some have their Skins all over curiously wrought with
blewish Lines and Figures, as if done with Gun-Powder and Needles, and
all of them delight in being painted; so that when they are very fine,
you may see some of them with their Hair cut off on one Side, and a long
Lock on the other. The Crown being crested and bedaubed with red Lead
and Oil; their Forehead being painted white, and it may be their Nose
black, and a Circle of Blue round one Eye, with the Cheek red, and all
the other Side of the Face yell